Early Urban Civilizations
Ancient Egypt
Mummies
Mesopotamia
MYSTERY
100

The first human settlements were built next to what? Why?

Rivers

100

Where is Ancient Egypt located?

1

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