Mummification
Used to dry out the mummy during the mummification process.
What is natron?
What are the three time periods of Egyptian history?
What is Old, Middle and New Kingdoms?
The colors men and women statues were painted in ancient Egypt?
What is red for men and yellow for women?
This pharaoh united upper and lower Egypt in 3100 BC.
Who is King Menes?
A good luck charm in Egypt.
What is an amulet?
The Devourer is a third each of these three animals.
What is part lion, hippo, crocodile?
Three things the Egyptians learned form the Hyksos.
What is upright loom, musical instruments, potter's wheel, cattle, bronze?
Used by the Egyptians to keep all of the proportions the same?
What is a grid?
The longest reigning pharaoh in Egypt.
Who is Pepi II?
Describe a shawabti.
What is a small statue placed in a tomb to do all the work for the pharaoh in the afterlife?
Name three things that you might see at a funeral.
1. Coffin on a boat-shaped sled pulled by oxen.
2. A smaller sled carrying canopic jars.
3. Priests, family members, servants, and mourners, many of whom were paid to weep hysterically.
4. A priest wearing the mask of Anubis performed the Opening of the Mouth so that the ba could leave the body.
5. The mummy is placed in sarcophagus in the tomb along with the canopic jars and many objects for the afterlife.
Name the products that Egypt got when trading with Byblos, Syria, and Nubia.
What are...
Byblos...cedar
Syria...Lapis Lazuli
Nubia...gold (among other things?)
This is how children were portrayed in Egyptian art.
What is naked, tiny, finger to the mouth and a sidelock?
Name two pharaohs who helped defeat the Hyksos.
Who is Ahmose?Sequenenra? Kamos?
The year the new kingdom began.
What is 1500BC?
What is to enable the ka to eat and speak in the afterlife?
These are the three countries that conquered Egypt at the end of the New Kingdom.
What are Persia, Greece and Rome?
People were drawn this way in ancient Egypt.
What is head in profile, eyes front, chest and shoulders forward, arms in action, and legs sideways?
This pharoah who brought Egypt out of the Dark Ages and into the Middle Kingdom.
Who is Mentuhotep?
What is an aggressive spirit? They developed this because they knew they could not trust their boundaries anymore after the Hyksos invasion. Therefore they attacked and overtook their neighboring countries.
The heads of the four Canopic jars and the body parts in each.
What is
falcon...intestines
jackal... stomach
human ...liver
baboon...lungs
These factors ended the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms.
What is Old.. famine
What is Middle...Hyksos
What is New...invasions by Persians and Greeks and Romans
These attributes were common with all statues made in ancient Egypt.
red men, yellow women
men left foot forward, women feet together
men's hands in fists clenched at sides, women's arms around men
faces look similar
These are five pharaohs that ruled during the New Kingdom.
Who are Hatshepsut, Thutmose, Ramses, Akenhaten, and Tutankhamen?
These three things led to the decline of the Old Kingdom.
What are 1. loopholes in taxes 2. pharaoh spending too much money on pyramids and temples 3. pharaoh losing power to the nomarchs?