Ancient Egypt Vocab

Question 1

Engaged column

Answer 1

A half-round column attached to a wall

Question 2

Greywacke

Answer 2

A hard dark-grey sandstone

Question 3

Egypt New Kingdom (1550-1100)

Answer 3

Akenato changed everything
Gods were abandoned resulting in one god Aton
Aton was a sun disk, not a human/animal figure
Major change in art style, new art style called Amarna period

Question 4

Uruk

Answer 4

A large Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia

Question 5

Necropolis

Answer 5

“city of the dead”, a large burial spot

Question 6

Monotheistic

Answer 6

Belief in one god

Question 7

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 7

The set of lawy drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating back to the 18th century
The earliest legal code known in it’s entirety
A collection of 282 laws
One of the first(not the first) examples of written law in the ancient world

Question 8

Scribe

Answer 8

A person who writes things down

Question 9

Egypt old Kingdom(2575-2134 BCE)

Answer 9

Period in Ancient Egyptian history characterized by the building of the Great Pyramids at Giza

Question 10

Hieroglyphics

Answer 10

An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

Question 11

Rectilinear

Answer 11

Moving in or forming a straight line; having many straight lines

Question 12

Clerestory

Answer 12

Part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light

Question 13

Curvilinear

Answer 13

Characterized by curved lines

Question 14

Hypostyle hall

Answer 14

A hall with a roof supported by columns

Question 15

Lapis lazuli

Answer 15

A semiprecious blue stone, used to prepare the blue pigment known as ultramarine

Question 16

Mastaba

Answer 16

An ancient Egyptian mud brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping side and flat roof

Question 17

Ziggurat

Answer 17

Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks, it is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities

Question 18

Polytheistic

Answer 18

Belief in more than one god

Question 19

Armana period

Answer 19

When capital was in Amarna and Akhenaton was king
Artistic style was non idealized, showed elongated forehead and protruding bellies
This period is Monotheistic and shows only the sun disk(Aton)

Question 20

Cuneiform

Answer 20

A form of writing developed by the Sumerians world’s oldest form of writing

Question 21

Stele

Answer 21

A carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events

Question 22

Mesopotamia

Answer 22

A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies
In the bronze age this area included summer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and the Assyrian empires, in the iron age
It was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian

Question 23

Register

Answer 23

A horizontal band, often on top of another, that tells a narrative story

Question 24

Egypt middle kingdom 2050-1800 BCE

Answer 24

A new dynasty
Moved to the capital of thebes
Built irrigation projects and canal between the Nile and the Red Sea. So Egyptian ships could trade along the coast of Arabian peninsula and East Africa
Expanded Egyptian territory; Nubia and Syria