Africa

Question 1

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Answer 1

Ancient Egyptian Doctors

• Priests first to practice medicine.
• The first known physician in Egypt
  -high priest and Vizier, – Imhotep (TRUE FR. OF MEDICINE)

Question 2

MATHEMATICS

Answer 2

1. Lebombo bone
2. Ishango bone
3. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
4. Moscow Mathematical Papyrus

Question 3

ASTRONOMY

Answer 3

Calendar
* The ancient Egyptians used a lunar calendar for their religious
festivals and ritual.

• and solar calendar for every day life (365 days)

1. Akhet : The time of the floods
2. Peret: The time of growth
3. Shemu: The time of harvest

OBELISKS
- symbol of the pharoah divinity and object of worship for God sun Ra

SUNDIALS
* Sundial, the earliest type of timekeeping device

Question 4

PYRAMIDS

Answer 4

1. Great Pyramid
2. The Pyramid of Khafre
3. The Pyramid of Menkaure

Question 5

WRITING SYSTEM

Answer 5

Hieroglyphics

1. Phonograms
2. Ideograms
3. Determinatives

Question 6

MAKE UP

Answer 6

• Make-up originated with the ancient Egyptians, where men
  and women alike are used to wear it.

1. malachite- a copper ore, which provided the green eye make
   up color
2. Kohl- used to draw thick, distinctive black lines giving an
   almond shape to the eyes
3. Red ochre- which was used as rouge or lip color
4. Henna- which was widely used to stain the fingertips and toes

Question 7

It is a medical text on surgical trauma.

Answer 7

Edwin Smith Papyrus

Question 8

• 700 magical spells and remedies.
• manual for military surgery
• only scientific papyrus that time
• contain incantations for demons

Answer 8

Ebers Papyrus

Question 9

• 34 sections of specific gynecological problems, diagnosis, and treatment.
• they believed that conditions are linked to the womb
• treatments are non-surgical, ex. massage.

Answer 9

Kahun Gynecological Papyrus

Question 10

• The oldest mathematical
  instrument.
• A baboon fibula used as a measuring device

Answer 10

Lebombo Bone

Question 11

• The_____ is not merely a measuring device but the bone’s inscriptions are clearly separated into clusters of markings that
  represent various quantities.

Answer 11

Ishango Bone

Question 12

• instructional material on how multiplications are carried.
• named Alexander Henry Rhind
• long table of fractional parts to help with division, followed by the solutions of 84 specific problems in arithmetic and geometry.

Answer 12

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

Question 13

• named Golenishchev
  Mathematical Papyrus, after Vladimir Golenishchev.
• known for its
  geometry problems.

Answer 13

Moscow Mathematical Papyrus

Question 14

Calendar

• The ancient Egyptians used a lunar calendar for their religious
  festivals and ritual.
• They also used a solar calendar for their daily lives which contained 365 days per year.

Answer 14

1. Akhet : The time of the floods
2. Peret: The time of growth
3. Shemu: The time of harvest

Question 15

symbol of pharaohs’ divinity and objects of worship of the Egyptian Sun god Ra

Answer 15

Obelisk

Question 16

• The earliest type of timekeeping device,
• indicates the time of day by the position of the shadow of some object exposed to the sun’s rays.

Answer 16

Sundials

Question 17

the oldest and largest of the three

• Pharaoh Khufu

Answer 17

The Great Pyramid

Question 18

• the second tallest
• Pharaoh Khafre’s tomb.

Answer 18

The Pyramid of Khafre

Question 19

the southernmost pyramid at Giza.

Answer 19

The Pyramid of Menkaure

Question 20

• The earliest form of writing

These were drawings that portrayed a story.

Answer 20

Hieroglyphics

Question 21

are signs that
represent a specific sound

Answer 21

Phonograms

Question 22

represent ideas instead of sounds.

Answer 22

Ideograms

Question 23

• hieroglyphs
  that were not spoken or translated.
• use to make the meaning of the words clearer.

Answer 23

Determinatives