Early Urban Civilizations
Ancient Egypt
Mummies
Mesopotamia
MYSTERY
100
The first human settlements were built next to what? Why?
Rivers
100
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100
True or False: Mummification was always intentional stemming from the Ancient Egyptian belief in the afterlife.
False: the first mummies happened as an accident
100
True or False: the first written texts were produced in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
True
100
Amun was King of _____.
Wind and secrets
200
In order to administer large cities, delegates need to invent something to make it easier to record. What did they invent?
Writing
200
Which period of Ancient Egypt was Alexander the Great from? (Old, Middle, New, Late)
Late period (332 BC)
200
The collection of magic spells placed in Egyptian tombs to help the deceased in his journey to the afterlife.
Book of the Dead
200
Whose tomb is the most famous and why?
King Tut and because of how much he had in his tomb. Fascinating to study.
200
Horus was the god of ______.
The sky
300
What was the first type of ideographic writing?
Cuneiform
300
What is the term that refers to the belief in many gods.
Polytheistic
300
What is the outer tomb that encases the mummy called?
The sarcophagus
300
Officers specialized in writing
Scribes
300
Isis was the goddess of _____.
Fertility
400
Mesopotamians and Egyptians came up with two new methods to canalize water. What were they?
Canals and dykes
400
Egyptians believed that to go to the afterlife you had to fulfill two requirements. What were they?
The body had to be mummified and the person has to pass the Judgement of Osiris
400
The organs of the body were placed into specific vases. What were they called and describe what they looked like.
They were called canopic jars and they had animal features. They were representations of the sons of a god.
400
What is the term for an underground tomb dug out of a rock.
Hypogeum
400
Ra was the god of ______.
The sun
500
The Rosetta Stone was found to have been in three different languages. What were they?
Ancient Greek
Egyptian Demotic Script
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
500
Describe the eight steps of mummification during ancient Egypt.
Embalmers washed the body
The brain was extracted
The cut the corpse and removed all the organs except the heart.
Each organ was placed in a canopic jar.
The body was covered in natron to dry out.
The body was wrapped in linen bandages.
The amulets would be placed over.
The funerary mask was placed on the body and put into a sarcophagus.
500
During the afterlife, according to the book of the dead, there is a process that each person must endure. Describe the trial that we spoke about in class that determined if someone reached the afterlife.
Anubis weighed the heart of the deceased on a feather. If the heart was heavier, the demon would eat it and the deceased wasn't allowed to the afterlife. If the heart was lighter, the deceased was led by Horus and received by Osiris.
500
The necropolis of the pharoahs of the New Kingdom who were afraid of having their tombs sacked.
The Valley of the Kings
500
Osiris was the god of _______.
Agriculture and Resurrection