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Mrs. Emery
Mrs. Emery EGYPT TEST 2008 STUDY GUIDE
Question | Answer |
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Egypt waas divided into two parts...in the north (by the NILE DELTA) this area was called.... | LOWER EGYPT |
The area in the south of Egypt is called | UPPER EGYPT |
Ancient Egyptians wanted the Nile to flood because it was good for .... | Farming...the rich silt and water was great for farming |
The Nile River flood was predictable and Biannual (true or false) | TRUE |
When the Nile floods the rich silt is BAD for farming and therefore BAD for the economy | FALSE |
TRUE | |
A triangular shaped area of land at the mouth of a river with rich silt | DELTA |
cataracts | rapids along a river, such as those along the Nile in Egypt |
How did Egypt develop into upper and lower egypt? | Farms grew into villages and then into cities and then into upper and lower Egypt |
Egyptian Farmers and Mesopotamian both ________________ to water their crops | canals |
_____________________ helped protect Egypt from invaders | natural barriers |
Why was it good that the Nile flooded Biannually (two times a year)? | made farming possible because of silt and irrigation canals (water) |
Which social class made up the MAJORITY of the population in Egypt | farmers |
According to tradition, which King united upper and lower Egypt and wore the double crown | MENES |
According to our text, which Pharaoh was know for being the most Famous of the OLD KINGDOM and was known for his great monuments | KHUFU |
For more than 3,000 years the Egyptian Writing was a mystery....until the discovery of this object? | Rosetta Stone |
Who founded the first dynasty? Menes | |
In the old Kingdom the people thought this person was both King and god | PHARAOH |
Describe the social classes in EGypt(top to bottom) | Pharaoh, Nobles (priests and govt. officials), Scribes and craftspeople, farmers and below them Servants and slaves |
During the Old Kingdom traders traded with their neighbors...list items traded with NIBIA= | gold, copper, ivory, stone, and slaves |
At the end of the Old Kingdom there were about_______ people living in EGypt | 2 million |
During the Old Kingdom traders traded with their neighbors...list items traded with SYRIA= | Wood |
During the old Kingdom the people were polytheists and worshipping the gods was part of daily life, all egyptians were expected to= worship the same gods | |
A _____________________ is a series of rulers from the same family | =dynasty |
This crown symbolized the unification of upper and lower Egypt | =double crown |
A person's life force/the part of the person that left the body and became a spirit | =KA |
What was the process called of preserving a human body to prevent decay | =embalming |
The size and shape of the pyramids | =showed the importance of the pharaoh |
Why did the people want the pharaoh to be happy in the after life? | =they believed he was the link to the gods |
Who drove the Hyskos out of Egypt in the New Kingdom | =Ahmose of Thebes |
What factor helped the growth of trade in the New Kingdom? | =Egypt's conquest (conquering) of foreign lands |
How did military conquests (conquering) help trade? | = As more and more areas came under Egyptian control, traders traveled farther and farther away in the EGYPTIAN EMPIRE |
Hatshepsut was unique because she was | =a WOMAN |
Who found the Rosetta Stone? | in 1799 the French Army (Napolean) was building (rebuilding) an old fort along the Nile River on a branch called the Rosetta. |
Ramses the Great is best remembered for | his great military conquests and battles against the Hittites and his great monuments |
After Hatshepsut died who destroyed all of her monuments? | her step son |
The rosetta stone had which three for | |
The Egyptian writing system | Hieroglyphics |
Egyptian Art had specific rules list the most important | A front view eye on a side view head, front view upper torso, both feet and hands are alike, animal heads on humans (VIPSonly), colorful border patterns, important people bigger than others |
There were how many forms of Egyptian writing? | three |
Egyptian writing had no_________________. | vowels |
Egytpian writing also had no ____________________, no __________________, and no ______________________. | punctuation, periods, spaces |
The Egyptians called their writing | MEDU NETER "WORDS OF GOD" |
The three form of Egyptian writing are | Hieroglyphics, hieratic, and demotic |
Hieroglyphics was the formal and ceremonial writing and it is the writing used in the | tombs |
Heiratic | every day shorthand writing , the EGyptians called it sesh...the greeks called it hieratic |
Demotic | business form of heiratic |
NAPOLEoN | sent copies of the Rosetta Stone to scholars around the world |
The three forms of writing on the Rosetta Stone are | Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek |
Which language is the key to deciphering the Egyptian Language | Greek-they could read Greek and the message was the same in all the three writings |
Who DECIPHERED the Rosetta Stone? First the demotic...later the entire Rosetta Stone | First Thomas Young and Francis Champoliion broke the code |
Why were tombs filled with art, jewelry ,and other treasures? | THey believed the Egyptians enjoyed these in the after life |
in 1922 the tomb of this Pharaoh was found almost totally intact...and this has taught us much about Egyptian life. | King Tutankhamen |
polytheism | belief in many gods |
Knowledge of this made the construction of the Great Pyramid possible | engineering |
Elite | People of wealth and power |
This body of water is at the mouth of the Nile River and Nile Delta | Mediterranean |