The Art of Ancient Egypt

Question 1

Age of up to ca. 3100 BC

Answer 1

Prehisotry

Question 2

ca. 3100-2650 BC

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Archaic Period

Question 3

ca. 2650 - 2150 BC

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Old Kingdom

Question 4

ca. 2040 - 1640 BC

Answer 4

Middle Kingdom

Question 5

ca. 1550-1070 BC

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New Kingdom

Question 6

ca. 712-332 BC

Answer 6

Late Period

Question 7

332 BC - AD 395

Answer 7

Ptolemaic (Hellenistic) and Roman Periods

Question 8

ca. 2150-2040 BC

Answer 8

First Period

Question 9

ca. 1640-1550 BC

Answer 9

Second Period

Question 10

1070-712 BC

Answer 10

Third Intermediate Period

Question 11

The Egyptians believed the universe and all events that occured within it were governed by the will of Gods.

Answer 11

The Role of Gods

Question 12

God of writing, was often symbolized by the baboon, known for its cleverness, especially with its hands. The baboon was also associated with the sun god, because at sunrise baboons tend to sit facing the sun to warm themselves. Their poses suggested to the Egyptians that the baboons were worshiping the rebirth of the sun.

Answer 12

Toth

Question 13

Addressed for matters pertaining to childbirth

Answer 13

Tawaret

Question 14

Addressed for concerns about childbirth and sexual life

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Bes

Question 15

The hieroglyphic sign for life

Answer 15

Scepters and ankh

Question 16

The crook and flail, emblems of Egyptian kings, were held by the king of the underworld

Answer 16

Osiris

Question 17

The afterlife involved a daily interaction between the three major components of human being:

Answer 17

The body, the ka, and the ba

Question 18

The physical component

Answer 18

Body

Question 19

After death it was preserved through the process of _______, in which it was dried out with salts and wrapped in linen strips and sheets soaked with resin, so that it would remain unchanging and whole forever.

Answer 19

Mummification

Question 20

After death it was preserved through the process of _______, in which it was dried out with salts and wrapped in linen strips and sheets soaked with resin, so that it would remain unchanging and whole forever.

Answer 20

Mummification

Question 21

The life force

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Ka

Question 22

These provided the ka with a continual source of sustenance that could be consumed without affecting the physical offerings or depictions themselves. As the focus for offerings, the tomb was known as the “_____”

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Ka house

Question 23

Statues of the deceased within the tomb are often called _____

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Ka statues

Question 24

The human behing him/herself -everuthing that makes a person an individu except the for the body. Is also the link between life on earth and afterlife.

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Ba

Question 25

Each night the ba was expected to rejoin the mummy in the tomb and to recieve from it the power of rebirth. In this union the ba was reunited with its life force, the ka, and became an _____.

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Akh

Question 26

Meaning of Akh - able to come to life again each day/

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Effective being

Question 27

Beginning in the New Kingdom such texts were also placed on papyrus scrolls buried with the dceased known as the ______.

It is to help the ba pass the trial by being provided with a set of proper spells to recite and a scene of successful judgement.

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Book of the Dead

Question 28

The seat of thought and emotion

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Heart

Question 29

On its first nightly encounter with Osiris the ba had to undergo a judgement, in which its ____ was balanced on a scale against a ______.

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Heart, feather

Question 30

Things as they ought to be. A feather symbol.

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Maat

Question 31

If the two did not balance, the ba was denied the chance to enter the cycle of daily rebirth; to the Egyptians this was known as “_____”

Answer 31

Dying a second time

Question 32

The mummy itself was also given a “____”, inscribed with a spell requesting it not to testify against the ba.

Answer 32

Heart scarab

Question 33

Once the trial had been passed, the deceased was declared “_____”, and was able to begin the eternal cycle of daily rebirth.

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True of voice

Question 34

The ancient Egyptians believed that the king was endowed with divine power so he could maintain universal order and justice against the forces of chaos and evil.

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The role of the King.

Question 35

A goddess. She personified the quilibrium of the world; she was, therefore, especially associated with the king.

Answer 35

Maat

Question 36

On the strength of his divine nature the ___ was the mediator between the gods and humankind.

the Egyptians called the ____ the living embodiment of Horus and the son of Re.

Answer 36

King

Question 37

Re

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the Sun God

Question 38

Rulers of other lands were given lesser titles, such as _____ or _____.

Answer 38

Prince or shieftain

Question 39

King of Upper and Lower Egypt. Was used when the king issued proclamations or spoke officially to his people/

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Nesut bity

Question 40

Your person, could be used as your majesty by someone greeting the king face to face or writing to him.

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Hem (hemek)

Question 41

Meaning great house, originally referred to the royal palace and its inhabitants. It had become a respectful term meaning the king himself in time of Ramessess II.

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Pharaoh

Question 42

A greek word meaning “sacred symbol.” In Egypt, one of some seven hundred signs used in writing (considerably more if one coutns signs used exclusively in the Old Kingdom and the periods after the New Kingdom).

Answer 42

Hieroglyph