What is the egyption writing that uses pictures of objects, people and animals to write down their language?
100
Ra
Which God or Goddess created the world?
100
The Heart
Which part of the body was not removed in the process of mummification?
100
The Pharaoh
Who is the ruler that owns all of Egypt, and everything in it: all the land, all the tools, all the animals, and all the people.
100
Many Gods
What did the people in egypt believed in?
200
"sacred carving"
What does the name, or noun, "hieroglyph" mean?
200
Ra, Anubis, Seth, Osiris, Isis, and Horus
What are some of the names of the gods?
200
The ancient Egyptians believed that when someone died, their soul left their body. The soul would then return and be reunited with the body after it was buried. However, the soul needed to be able to find and recognise the body in order to live forever.
Why did Ancient Egyptians bury dead people?
200
True
True or False: Pharaohs chose people to represent them, and assigned the people to big estates all over Egypt.
200
Persian
The ______ invasion of Egypt in 539 BC doesn't seem to have made any difference to Egyptian religion.
300
700
How many hieroglyphic signs are there?
300
Thoth
Which God or Goddess has two forms?
300
The earliest ancient Egyptians buried their dead in small pits in the desert. The heat and dryness of the sand dehydrated the creating lifelike and natural 'mummies'.
How did Ancient Egyptians bury their dead?
300
False
True or False: When the Pharaohs were weaker, especially in the Third and Second Intermediate Periods, sometimes they could not make the rich people do what they wanted them to.
300
False
True or False: They thought that when you died, Anubis would weigh your soul against a feather, and if your soul was heavier than the feather (with good deeds), you would be rewarded.
400
Consonants
What does the hieroglyphic signs represent?
400
Seth
Which God or Goddess killed Horus's father?
400
A long, slightly hooked tool was introduced into the brain through the nose, swirled around to liquefy the brain. The head was then tipped forward and all contents of the skull poured out, again through the nose.
How was the brain removed?
400
Monarchy
The Egyptian government was a _______.
400
323 BC
When did Ptolemy take over Egypt?
500
If the animal, bird or person is facing left, you read from left to right and if they are facing right, you read from right to left.
How do you know which way to read hieroglyphics if it is written from across the page?
500
A jackal or wild dog
What is Anubis God of funerals and death shown as?
500
To dessicate the body
What was the 2nd step to mummification?
500
Some Food
What did the rich people have to give to the Pharaohs?
500
Akhenaten and Aten
During the New Kingdom, the Pharaoh _______ started a new worship of the god _____ , and he seems to have wanted people to believe that Aten was the only real god, or maybe the only god worth worshipping.