Key Terms
What is the name for the annual flooding of the Nile River that left behind fertile black soil for farming?
Inundation
Who ruled the New Kingdom at a young age and is famous because his tomb was found almost intact in 1922?
Tutankhamun
A relief from an Old Kingdom tomb (c. 2575–2465 BCE) shows workers pulling in a fishing net. Is this a primary or secondary source? Why?
Primary source: it was made during the time being studied.
Which river was the lifeblood of Ancient Egypt?
The Nile
In the Hall of Judgment, a dead person's heart was weighed against what? (depicted in the Book of the Dead of Hunefer)
The feather of Ma'at.
What is the name of the ancient mega-continent that joined Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania when sea levels were lower?
Sahul
Rank from most to least powerful: farmers, pharaoh, scribes, vizier
Paharaoh, vizier, scribes, farmers
What does each letter of COMA stand for?
Content, Origin, Message, Audience
Was Upper Egypt in the north or the south? Explain why.
South because the Nile flows from south to north (Upper Egypt was upstream).
What is the name of the containers where organs were stored as part of the mummification process?
Canpoic jars
What is the name of a literate person who wrote and kept records for the government, temples and businesses?
Scribe
What New Kingdom pharaoh built huge statues of himself, including Abu Simbel?
Ramesses II
In Egyptian art, the pharaoh holds a crook and flail. What do they show about his role?
The crook shows that he guides and cares for people like a shepherd. The flail shows his power and authority.
In deep time history, what does "BP" stand for, and what year is "present" fixed at?
Before Present. Fixed at 1950.
What is the name of the worldview and way of life that believes that Ancestors created the land, people, animals and plants, and gave Aboriginal peoples their laws and customs?
The Dreaming
What is the name of the highest-ranking official after the pharaoh, who oversaw administration and justice?
Vizier
What woman ruled as a pharaoh, built great monuments and sent a trading mission to the land of Punt?
Hatshepsut
The Budk Bim eel traps in Victoria, dated to over 6,000 years old, are evidence of which farming practice?
What is the name of a huge modern dam, completed in 1970, which stopped the Nile's annual flood?
The Aswan (High) Dam
What was the Book of the Dead used for?
It contained spells and prayers that guided the dead through the afterlife to reach eternal life.
Name Egypt's three periods in order, and state what the earliest one is best known for.
Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. The Old Kingdom was the "age of the pyramids"
Name two rights that women in ancient Egypt had that many other ancient women did not.
Own or inherit property; run a business; represent themselves in court; divorce their husbands
Why was the Rosetta Stone so important to historians?
It has the same text in three scripts, which allowed historians to decode and understand hieroglyphics.
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built c. 2560 BCE. What century is that?
26th century BCE
In the Last Judgment of Hunefer, name the god who weighs the heart, the god who records the result and the creature who eats an unworthy heart.
(hint: three different answers)
Weighs heart: Anubis
Records results: Thoth
Eats an unworthy heart: Ammit