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This important guide for Egyptian teachers was used to promote the development of the character and attitudes of common Egyptian children.
What are the Instructions for Wisdom?
This Kingdom was also known as the 'age of empire.'
What is the New Kingdom?
She gained power through her connection as a god of fertility. Though not a pharaoh, she held the power of a ruler.
Who is Nefirtiti?
This important administrator was in charge of the empire bureaucracy. They also served as judges in important court cases.
This king's tomb, finally opened in the 1920s, revealed over 5000 artifacts to go with him in the afterlife.
Who was King Tutankhamen?
This important find opened up the world of hieroglyphics, with the same text in three different written languages.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The earliest forms of these were an oval with special symbols to represent a pharaoh.
What is a hieroglyph?
This symbol, known as the wedjat, was thought to offer projection from the gods upon death.
What is the eye of Horus?
The role of pharaoh passed to the first born son of the Pharaohs chief wife. That's why she served as regent, and later pharaoh, while waiting for her nephew to come of age.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Egypt was in part stable for so long because of protection on either side off the Nile by these.
What are deserts?
This duty was required labour from the common class to the government for work on public projects.
What is the corvee duty?
It's the kingdom in which most of the pyramids were built, including the Step Pyramid at Saqqara and the Great Pyramid at Giza.
What is the Old Kingdom?
He was the sun god, and chief of the Egyptian deities.
Who is Re/Ra/Amon-Re?
The pharaoh served as judge only in cases which potentially had this consequence.
What is the death penalty?
It's the northern geographic feature which seperates the Nile River from the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Egyptian Delta?
The skills of craftsmen and tradesmen were often taught in this manner.
What is from parents and/or hereditary?
The empire was eventually conquered and occupied by these two Mediterranean empires.
What are the Roman and Greek empires?
The later pharaohs were buried at this famous and desolate place in southern Egypt, avoiding the graverobbers of northern Egypt.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
Pharaoh is a modern term, but in translates roughly from ancient Egyptian as this phrase.
What is great house?
This was an additional stone or wooden box in which a coffin was placed, like that of Tutankhamen.
What is a sarcophagus?
Egypt has three of these such periods, where the kingdoms gave way to instability and a fractured empire.
What is an indeterminant period?
This symbol in Egyptian art represents truth, justice, morality and balance, often associated with Pharaohs
What is the Feather of Ma'at?