Egypt Test Flashcards
Amulets
Jewelry wrapping in the linen for protection
Book of the dead
Book of prayers and magic spells used to guide the people during,their trip to the after life
Bureaucracy
Someone that runs the government
Ba / Ka
At the death the ka is the soul and ba is the body. During the afterlife they get separated but ends up coming back together .
Dynasty
Series of rulers from one family
Great Sphinx
Mythical structure that has a human head and a lions body that is used to guard the pharaohs tomb
Karnak
The largest temple on earth that is built to honor Ra
Lake Victoria
Source of the Nile
Pyramids
4 sided triangular sided structure tombs that are built in Egypt for pharaohs when they die.
Obelisk
Symbol of the sun god
Ankh
Symbol of life after death
Hyksos
Foreign people that overthrown the city of Thebes
Memphis
Capital city in Egypt
Mummification
A process of embalming and drying dead bodies to prevent decay.. So in the afterlife the soul and find the body
Nile
Longest river in the world and its called “ Egypts life line”
Pharaoh
A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and a military leader
Papyrus
Reeds used for paper
Silt
rich black slit that covers the land
Pyramids
4 trianglar sided structure tombs that are bolt for the pharaohs when they die
Thebes
Ancient capital of Egypt
Us habits
Figurines that is buried with a person in order to act as a worker in the after life
Vizier
Prime minister) under the kings of Egypt
Akhenaton
He changed the polytheistic religion to monotheistic.
Cleopatra
Last pharaoh, who was half Egyptian and half Greek
