Ancient Egypt Study Cards

Question 0

Vessels that store the vital organs after mummification

Answer 0

Canopic jars

Question 1

Document that contains spells and charms to help secure passage into the afterlife

Answer 1

Book of the dead

Question 2

How long did it take to mummify a corpse

Answer 2

70 days

Question 3

Where we’re the pharoahs buried

Answer 3

Valley of the kings

Question 4

First recorded examples of hieroglyphs date back ———— years

Answer 4

5000

Question 5

What discovery in 1799 finally enabled us to translate egyptian hieroglyphics

Answer 5

The Rosetta Stone

Question 6

Who deciphered the translations on the Rosetta Stone

Answer 6

Jean Champollion

Question 7

What is a Stella

Answer 7

A stone slab used to carve hieroglyphics on before the event invention of papyrus

Question 8

How did the cartouche get its name

Answer 8

Named by napoleons soldiers because it looked like the ammunition cartridge in their weapons

Question 9

What three languages were on the Rosetta Stone

Answer 9

Greek,egyptian, and demotic

Question 10

What other materials are made from papyrus reeds

Answer 10

Boats,sandals, rope, baskets

Question 11

Ritual done before burial used to awaken the senses in the afterlife

Answer 11

Opening mouth ritual

Question 12

Who was the longest reigning pharoah

Answer 12

Ramses ll -66 years

Question 13

What is natron

Answer 13

Desert salt used to mummify

Question 14

How did the geography influence their spiritual beliefs

Answer 14

Living next to the desert mad them more aware of their mortality

Question 15

Why did they mummify the body

Answer 15

They believed they needed their body in the afterlife

Question 16

Egyptian creation belief

Answer 16

Life rose from a primeval ocean

Question 17

The pyramid symbolizes

Answer 17

Resurrection

Question 18

What were amulets used for

Answer 18

Protection

Question 19

Whose tomb was the only one found intact in the valley of the kings.

Answer 19

King tut

Question 20

What is an ushubtes

Answer 20

Clay figures placed in the tombs as a symbolic workers

Question 21

Who is Osiris

Answer 21

The god of the underworld

Question 22

Their art stayed the same for ———— years

Answer 22

3000

Question 23

What are the five main characteristics of painted human figures

Answer 23

Rigid stylized figure
Torso flower ward facing
Limbs and head in profile
Elongated forehead and limbs
Eye exaggerated and forward facing

Question 24

how did egyptians envision the afterlife

Answer 24

like normal life

Question 25

what was buried with the dead

Answer 25

stuff from everyday life | food,servants,and other things

Question 26

who were the only Egyptians taught how to read

Answer 26

viziers, scribes, and doctors

Question 27

did Egyptians use currency

Answer 27

no they bartered

Question 28

symbol for eternal life

Answer 28

ankh

Question 29

symbol for spiritual ability to percive and interpret both the sen and the unseen in the universe

Answer 29

eye of RA

Question 30

who is the goddess of truth-judges if you can get into the afterlife

Answer 30

maat

Question 31

symbol that represents royalty

Answer 31

crook and flail

Question 32

egyptian word for soul

Answer 32

ka

Question 33

cat god of protection

Answer 33

Bast

Question 34

egyptian god of death-one with jackel head

Answer 34

anubis

Question 35

egyptian god of creation

Answer 35

ra

Question 36

how can you gain social status

Answer 36

born into it or could buy training

Question 37

how many separate rituals were in the foundation ritual

Answer 37

10

Question 38

The hoeing the earth ritual was part of what ritual in a whole

Answer 38

the foundation ritual

Question 39

the moulding the brick ritual was part of what ritual

Answer 39

the foundation ritual