S.S 3-3 & 3-4 Flashcards
God of the living and the dead
Osiris
Believed in many _____ and ______
Gods
Goddesses
Chief God who protected the rich and poor; believed to be born each morning in the east and died each evening in the west
Amon-Re
____ was believed to be home of the ____
West
Dead
Osiris’s wife, most powerful Egyptian goddesses, worshipped as great mother who protected health for her children
Isis
Osiris’s son, God of the sky
Horus
Preserved bodies
Mummies
Believed if bodies were preserved, their spirits would ____ in the ________
Exist
Afterlife
Bodies were dried with ____ and wrapped in linen _____
Salt
Cloth
Building of tombs began when _____ was crowned
Pharaoh
Huge buildings with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles
Pyramids
Largest pyramid found at Giza
Great Pyramid
______ and _________; had sense of fun and ______
Busy
Hardworking
Beauty
In the social pyramid, the top class was \_\_\_\_\_. Under that was smaller upper classic including \_\_\_\_\_\_, members of pharaohs court, and \_\_\_\_\_. Next level was middle class made of skilled \_\_\_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Lower class(largest) were \_\_\_\_\_\_.
Pharoah Priests Nobles Workers Merchants Peasants
_____ were in a separate class- they had some rights including owning personal____, inheriting _____, and could be set ____.
Slaves
Items
Land
Free
_____ could own _____, and most worked on land of ______ people.
Peasants
Land
Wealthier
Most _____ were _____, some worked on building ____ and ______
Peasants
Farmers
Roads
Temples
Egyptian ______ looked upon as living models of ______
Women
Isis
Egyptian _____ had most of the same rights as _____, and could own ______ and could run a ______.
Women
Men
Property
Business
Egyptian _____ could also enter into legal _____, traveled around _____, and had many _______.
Women
Contracts
Freely
Occupations
For achievements, they made important advances in ______, astronomy, and ______. It was also a land of great ______.
Writing
Medicine
Learning
Picture-like symbols used for writing
Hieroglyphs
Early form of paper made from a reed-like plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile Delta
Papyrus
Large black stone for near Rosetta ( a city in the Nile Delta) containing 3 types of writing- 2 forms of hieroglyphs and Greek letters
Rosetta Stone
French scholar who figured out the meaning of the hieroglyphs found on Rosetta Stone
Jean Francois Champollion
Scientists who study stars and other objects in the sky
Astronomers
Worked out the average time between appearances of ______, a star- came out to ___ days
Sirius
365
Learned to perform _____, set broken ______, and treat _____ injuries by studying the body.
Surgery
Bones
Spinal
Art of creating medicine from plants
Herbalism
A city in the Nile Delta
Rosetta
Practiced ______
Herbalism