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Egypt test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Rosetta stone | granite slab, found by French soldiers in 1799, had Hieroglyphics,Demotic script, and ancient Greek. Allowed is to translate/read ancient Egyptian |
| Egypt's River | The Nile River |
| Hieroglyphics | drawing/symbol that represents a word/sound |
| Bureaucracy | system of offices/officials that handle government business |
| Polytheism | belief in/worship of more than one god |
| Papyrus | writing material made from a reed found along the Nile River |
| Delta | land formed from sediment deposited at mouth of a river |
| Cataracts | rocky rapids along the upper Nile River |
| Dynasty | ruling family, passes down power from one member to another |
| Pharaoh | king/queen of Egypt |
| Cartouche on Coffins | Believed their Ba and Ka needed to find their way back to their tomb/body |
| Great Pyramid of Giza for who | Built for Pharaoh Khufu, was the tallest manmade structure for 3800 years |
| Nile River Importance | It flooded yearly, deposited water and silt, making fertile soil for farming |
| Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt | King Menes unified Upper/Lower Egypt around 3100 BC |
| Steps Ani took to survive Underworld | Paid for mummification/scarab amulet/protection spells. Bought Book of the Dead to avoid monsters. Scarab amulet protected him while he was tested/heart weighed. Got OK from Osiris to enter Afterlife |
| Process to get to the Land of Two Fields | First mummify bodies,Second do good deeds to get Osiris's approval for the Afterlife |
| Trade between Egypt and Kush | Through trade, Kush adopted Egyptian culture/religion |
| Sumerian and Egyptian religious similarities | They were both polytheists, with many different gods |
| Great Pyramids-Egypt's greatest achievements | Largest/tallest man-made structures for thousands of years, required vast coordination/workers, and required vast amounts of heavy building materials/labor |
| Egyptian Religion-Mummification | Their religion taught that they needed their body in the Afterlife |