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Egypt Test Flashcards

1
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Amulets

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Jewelry wrapping in the linen for protection

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Book of the dead

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Book of prayers and magic spells used to guide the people during,their trip to the after life

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Bureaucracy

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Someone that runs the government

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Ba / Ka

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At the death the ka is the soul and ba is the body. During the afterlife they get separated but ends up coming back together .

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5
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Dynasty

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Series of rulers from one family

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Great Sphinx

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Mythical structure that has a human head and a lions body that is used to guard the pharaohs tomb

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7
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Karnak

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The largest temple on earth that is built to honor Ra

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Lake Victoria

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Source of the Nile

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Pyramids

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4 sided triangular sided structure tombs that are built in Egypt for pharaohs when they die.

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10
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Obelisk

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Symbol of the sun god

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Ankh

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Symbol of life after death

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12
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Hyksos

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Foreign people that overthrown the city of Thebes

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13
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Memphis

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Capital city in Egypt

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14
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Mummification

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A process of embalming and drying dead bodies to prevent decay.. So in the afterlife the soul and find the body

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Nile

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Longest river in the world and its called “ Egypts life line”

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16
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Pharaoh

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A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and a military leader

17
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Papyrus

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Reeds used for paper

18
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Silt

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rich black slit that covers the land

19
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Pyramids

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4 trianglar sided structure tombs that are bolt for the pharaohs when they die

20
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Thebes

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Ancient capital of Egypt

21
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Us habits

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Figurines that is buried with a person in order to act as a worker in the after life

22
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Vizier

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Prime minister) under the kings of Egypt

23
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Akhenaton

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He changed the polytheistic religion to monotheistic.

24
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Cleopatra

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Last pharaoh, who was half Egyptian and half Greek

25
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Djoser

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He was the ruler during the old kingdom and was the founder of epoch

26
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Horus

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God of the sky

27
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Isis

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Was Osiris wife

28
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Khufu

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Egyptian pharaoh who ruled the first half of the old kingdom

29
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Narmer

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First pharaoh to unite the lower and upper kingdom

30
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Osiris

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God of the dead

31
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Ra

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Son God

32
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Ramses

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He had the largest empire, the greatest Egyptian ruler, ruled for 67yeArs

33
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Seth

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God of choas and evil

34
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Thurmond

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Pharaoh at the time of exodus

35
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King tut

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Had the smallest pyramid, died at 19, and became king around 9

36
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Hieroglyphics

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Pictures and symbols used for writing.

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