Ancient Egypt Vocab Flashcards
Engaged column
A half-round column attached to a wall
Greywacke
A hard dark-grey sandstone
Egypt New Kingdom (1550-1100)
Akenato changed everything
Gods were abandoned resulting in one god Aton
Aton was a sun disk, not a human/animal figure
Major change in art style, new art style called Amarna period
Uruk
A large Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia
Necropolis
“city of the dead”, a large burial spot
Monotheistic
Belief in one god
Code of Hammurabi
The set of lawy drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating back to the 18th century
The earliest legal code known in it’s entirety
A collection of 282 laws
One of the first(not the first) examples of written law in the ancient world
Scribe
A person who writes things down
Egypt old Kingdom(2575-2134 BCE)
Period in Ancient Egyptian history characterized by the building of the Great Pyramids at Giza
Hieroglyphics
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
Rectilinear
Moving in or forming a straight line; having many straight lines
Clerestory
Part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light
Curvilinear
Characterized by curved lines
Hypostyle hall
A hall with a roof supported by columns
Lapis lazuli
A semiprecious blue stone, used to prepare the blue pigment known as ultramarine
Mastaba
An ancient Egyptian mud brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping side and flat roof
Ziggurat
Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks, it is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities
Polytheistic
Belief in more than one god
Armana period
When capital was in Amarna and Akhenaton was king
Artistic style was non idealized, showed elongated forehead and protruding bellies
This period is Monotheistic and shows only the sun disk(Aton)
Cuneiform
A form of writing developed by the Sumerians world’s oldest form of writing
Stele
A carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events
Mesopotamia
A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies
In the bronze age this area included summer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and the Assyrian empires, in the iron age
It was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian
Register
A horizontal band, often on top of another, that tells a narrative story
Egypt middle kingdom 2050-1800 BCE
A new dynasty
Moved to the capital of thebes
Built irrigation projects and canal between the Nile and the Red Sea. So Egyptian ships could trade along the coast of Arabian peninsula and East Africa
Expanded Egyptian territory; Nubia and Syria
