Egyptian Gods Flashcards
Neolithic Revolution
Earliest times up until 10,000 BCE. People started inventing tools and lived in a hunter gatherer lifestyle
Hunter-Gatherers
Work force/lifestyle that consisted of 20-30 people equally divided with men and women. The men hunted animals while the women searched for fruits, berries, and other edible foods.
Systematic agriculture
process of crop cultivation, settling in one place, developed farming
Domestication
taming of animals
6 basic characteristics of civilization
1)cities
2)government
3)religion
4)social structure
5)art
6)writing
Fertile Crescent
an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
Mesopotamia
kingdom created by the babylonians
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
Summerians
city surrounded by walls 6 mi long and 30-35 ft high
Cuneiform
wedge shaped system of writing. Made on clay tablets that were baked/dried in the sun
Akkadians
n of the summerians. first first empire
Babylonians
conquered the sumerians
Sargon
ruler of Akkad
Hammurabi
Ruler of Babylon
The code of hammurabi
282 laws based off a strict code
City-States
an independent self governing country contained totally within the boarders of a single city
Ziggurat
most important building in a summerian city, dedicated to chief god or goddess of city
Empire
A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
Polytheistic
Belief in many gods
Old kingdom
2700-2200 bce. People believed if they helped their pharoah they were helping to maintain a stable world order
Middle kingdom
2050-1652 bce. Period of expansion
New kingdom
1567-1085 bce. Egypt created a new empire and became the most powerful state in SW asia. King tut
King Menes
United upper and lower Egypt
Pyramids
monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs.
Pharoahs
viewed as king gods
Ra
Creator of deity, and god of the sun. He gave life to everything and could resurrect people from the dead.
Represented as a man w a falcon head
Osiris
God of the underworld
Man dressed as a mummy w green skin
Murdered by his brother seth
Isis
God of motherhood
Wife of osiris and mother of horus
Resemble the body of osiris after his murder
Mother and protector of all the pharaohs
Khnum
God of creation
Man w the head of a ram
Control the flow than the nile river
Seth
God of chaos
Head of an unknown creature
Bro of osiris
Killed or punished by the council of gods
Horus
God of the sky
Falcon’s head
Lost his left eye fighting seth
Anubis
God of death and mummification
Head of a jackal
Weights hearts if the dead to see if they should go to the underworld
Nile River
The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered around
Nile Delta
The most fertile area of land in Egypt located end of the Nile River
Lower Egypt
The northern part of ancient Egypt
Upper Egypt
the southern part of ancient Egypt
Dynasty
A series of rulers from the same family
Anthropomorphism
the attribution of human form or other characteristics to beings other than humans particularly animals
Heirogylphics
Egyptian form of writing using symbols or pictures as characters
