How to Correctly Be Dead
What would your heart be weighed against as your first test to get into the afterlife?
A feather
Egyptian's religion was ___________________.
Polytheistic
How did the Egyptians get a lot of knowledge they know about bodies?
Mummification
The arts of ancient Egypt included _________ and __________ in ___________.
statues, wall paintings in tombs
What did women in Egypt have their other women in the ancient world didn't?
They had titles of royalty
What allows the heart to lie in ones afterlife test with many gods?
A scarab
How did they learn about their religion?
They learned it from their ancestors.
Which Egyptian medicines are still used today (give one specific example)?
anise, castor beans, and saffron
What folk tale was very popular?
The Tale of Sinuhe
What did the farmers do in the off-season? (need 1)
Served the pharaoh, built palaces, temples, and tombs
What would Egyptians use to survive the journey through the underworld?
The Book of the Dead
What did Akenhaten do to the old religion?
Replaced Aten in favor of Amon- Re and tried favoring Aten over other gods.
How many days were in an Egyptian year and how many each year.
395 + 5 each year
Common arts of ancient Egypt include the following (3)
wall paintings in tombs, carvings in temples, and statues.
What did women do other than work in the fields? (3)
raised children, collected water, and prepared foods.
Egyptians believed the afterlife was very similar to life on Earth, so what would the Egyptians be buried with as a result?
Everything they would need for eternity.
Who was the sun god?
Amon-Re
Redraw the boundaries of fields each year.
The oldest literature of ancient Egypt includes _____________ and prayers to the gods.
What are hymns?
In what areas did the New Kingdom increase in (1)
Society grew in trade and warfare. Increased more business
What would a dead soul be ferried across when first entering the underworld?
A lake of fire
What was the Nile to the Egyptians?
It was the Osiris.
Ancient Egyptians accumulated vast knowledge in __________, ____________, _______________.
medicine, astronomy, mathematics
Many of these portray people with animal heads.
statues and pictures.
What is the class system for Egypt (4)
Pharaoh, high priest/priestess, nobles, merchants, scribes, articans