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Egypt6
flashcards for egypt review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name the classes in order. | Royal Family/ Land owners, government officials, priests, and commanders/ merchant and aretisnasm/ Peasant farmers and unskilled laborers |
| First ever female river | Hatshepsut |
| Believing in many gods | polytheistic |
| First structure that used levers to move heavy objects | Great Pyramid of Giza |
| Bright star began to appear about the horizon just before the floods came (dog star) | Sirius |
| A handwriting in which the picture were signs | hieroglyphics |
| 4,500 year old nody of a lion with a humnan face | Great Sphinx |
| Egyptian Kings | Pharaohs |
| COllection of hyms, prayers and magic spells | Book of the Dead |
| Process of preserving a body for the after life | mummification |
| Why was egypt the gift of the NIle? | it was transportation and allowed the civilizations to grow |
| The fertile area around the Nile | Black Land |
| The desert clifs and plateaus bordering the valley | Red Land |
| founded the First Dynasty when he unified Upper and Lower Egypt | Menes |
| founder of IV dynasty, built first true pyramid | Snefru |
| Built largest pyramid | Khufu |
| founder of XVIII Dynasty, bukt Valley of the Kings | Ahnmose |
| rock graves for Pharaohs | Valley of the Kings |