Ancient Egypt

Question 1

What way does the Nile River flow?

Answer 1

North/up

Question 2

What is the record that the Nile River holds?

Answer 2

It is the longest river in the world to this day

Question 3

What season does the Nile flood?

Answer 3

Spring

Question 4

What was the “Gift of the Nile”?

Answer 4

Silt, a black, rich fertile soil left behind after the Nile flooded

Question 5

What would Egypt be without the Nile?

Answer 5

A desert

Question 6

What is a shaduf?

Answer 6

A hand operated device for lifting water

Question 7

When and what are the three seasons of farming?

Answer 7

Flood- mid-June to mid-October
Planting- mid-October to mid-February
Harvest- mid-February to mid-June

Question 8

Who united Upper and Lower Egypt?

Answer 8

King Menes (less preferred: King Narmer)

Question 9

What is a Pschent?

Answer 9

A double-crown worn by rulers/pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

Question 10

What are the main gods of importance in Ancient Egypt religion?

Answer 10

Horus- god of the sky; protector and guardian

Osiris- god of the afterlife and rebirth; king of the underworld

Question 11

What did burial pits give?

Answer 11

Natural mummification

Question 12

What was buried with a person in a burial pit?

Answer 12

Grave goods

Question 13

What are problems with burial pits?

Answer 13

• shifting sand revealed the body
• animals could eat the body
• tomb robbers

Question 14

What are mastabas?

Answer 14

A rectangular-roofed tomb with sloped sides and a flat roof

Question 15

How tall were mastabas?

Answer 15

17-20 feet tall

Question 16

Where is the burial chamber in a mastaba?

Answer 16

Underground/underneath it

Question 17

Why were bodies mummified?

Answer 17

So the person’s spirit could recognize themselves in the afterlife

Question 18

Who was Snefru?

Answer 18

The founding pharaoh of the fourth dynasty of Egypt and great pyramid designer/builder

Question 19

What pyramids did Snefru build?

Answer 19

The Bent Pyramid, the Red Pyramid, and the Meidum Pyramid

Question 20

Which of Snefru’s pyramids were a flop and which of them was successful?

Answer 20

Flop- Bent Pyramid, Meidum Pyramid

Success- Red Pyramid

Question 21

How long did the Pyramids at Giza take to build?

Answer 21

Over 20 years

Question 22

Who was responsible for the Great Pyramid at Giza?

Answer 22

Khufu, son of Snefru

Question 23

Who’s head was on the head of the Sphinx?

Answer 23

Khafre, son of Snefru

Question 24

What animal is the body of the Sphinx?

Answer 24

A lion

Question 25

What does the Sphinx symbolize?

Answer 25

Power of a Pharaoh

Question 26

What was the Sphinx made of?

Answer 26

Leftover pyramid stones (limestone)

Question 27

What was the cheaper alternative of pyramids when burying pharaohs?

Answer 27

Burying the Pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt

Question 28

What were pyramids targets of?

Answer 28

Robbery because they were so expensive

Question 29

What bank of the Nile was the Valley of the Kings located on?

Answer 29

The west bank

Question 30

Where was the afterlife believed to be located?

Answer 30

In the Valley of the Kings

Question 31

Who discovered King Tut's mostly intact tomb?

Answer 31

Howard Carter, a British archaeologist

Question 32

What do you have to have in order to gain entry into the afterlife?

Answer 32

- have your name written down - have a body for your spirit - be "light-hearted" or good spirited

Question 33

Who was always present at a burial ceremony?

Answer 33

Two women that it was their job to mourn and they represented Isis and Nephtys

Question 34

Who protected your KA or your spirit that moved to the afterlife?

Answer 34

Priests

Question 35

What is a BA?

Answer 35

A persons personality that looks after the living

Question 36

What is Natron?

Answer 36

A natural salt that is used to remove moisture from the body during mummification

Question 37

LOOK AT MUMMIES FOR DUMMIES!!!!!!!!!

Answer 37

LOOK AT MUMMIES FOR DUMMIES!!!!!!!!!

Question 38

What is an Ankh?

Answer 38

A symbol of life

Question 39

What was the Eye of Horus symbolizing?

Answer 39

Protection, royal power, and good health

Question 40

What is the Book of the Dead?

Answer 40

It is not a book! It's a nickname for a bunch of different magical spells written down in various ways by the ancient Egyptians to help protect in the afterlife

Question 41

What happened in the weighing of the heart ceremony?

Answer 41

If your heart was light, you would pass and go to the afterlife. If you had a heavy heart, the goddess Ammut would devour you. You could get a light heart by doing good deeds when you were alive

Question 42

What are shabitis?

Answer 42

Servants of the afterlife that make a pharaoh have as good as a life as when they were alive

Question 43

Were Ancient Egyptians religious people?

Answer 43

Yes. Very Religious

Question 44

How many Egyptian gods were there?

Answer 44

Over 2,000 gods and goddesses

Question 45

What did most gods have in common?

Answer 45

Animal heads

Question 46

What is Osiris the god of?

Answer 46

The underworld

Question 47

What is Ra the god of?

Answer 47

The sun

Question 48

What is Isis the god of?

Answer 48

The moon

Question 49

What did Ancient Egyptians use to write things down?

Answer 49

Hieroglyphics

Question 50

Were hieroglyphics hard to read?

Answer 50

Yes. Very Difficult

Question 51

How many hieroglyphics are there?

Answer 51

Over 700 of them

Question 52

What were hieroglyphics resembling?

Answer 52

Everyday objects

Question 53

Did it take long to make hieroglyphics?

Answer 53

Yes. Very time-consuming

Question 54

What is Cartouche?

Answer 54

An oval circle with a name written on it like a nameplate. Without this, Egyptians believed you would dissappear when you died

Question 55

Who discovered the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 55

Napoleon's army

Question 56

When was King Tut's tomb discovered?

Answer 56

1922

Question 57

What is the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 57

A stone that deciphers Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to Ancient Egyptian Demotic to Ancient Greek

Question 58

Who was known for deciphering the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 58

Champollion

Question 59

Who is at the top of the social pyramid?

Answer 59

Pharaohs then Viziers then Priests and Nobels