Pharaohs
Pharaohs were the god-kings of ancient Egypt who ruled between 3150 B.C. and 30 B.C.
Who Conquered Egypt?
He was a creator god who became a national god after the pharaohs moved their capital to the city of Thebes.
Who was Amun?
Signs that represent a specific sound. Some correspond with the sounds of two or more letters.
What are Phonograms?
Beginning in the Old Kingdom Period, scholars have found evidence of artificial mummification.
When did scholars find evidence of mummification?
Peasant life in ancient Egypt was not always enjoyable. Most peasants made their living off the land through agricultural means.
What did peasants do in ancient Egypt?
Ancient Egyptian pharaohs were considered to be both divine deities as well as mortal rulers.
Who were the Pharaohs?
He was an ancient Egyptian sun god. He is the father of the gods and is usually depicted with the body of a human and the head of a falcon.
Who is Ra?
Ideas instead of sounds. Examples of the hieroglyphs that represent the gods.
What are Ideograms
The tomb raids led to changes in burial practices.
What changed burial practices.
Although noblemen usually had larger homes that were divided into three areas, the reception area, hall, and private quarters, peasants lived in town homes that were usually two or three stories tall.
What 3 areas had the larger homes seperated?
He ruled during the Old Kingdom and built the first true stone pyramid, the Step Pyramid.
Who was Djoser?
She was a cow goddess and a cosmic goddess. She nourished all life with her milk and her name meant “House of Horus”. Some legends, name Hathor as the consort of Horus and she formed a Triad with him and their son Ihi.
Who was Athor?
Hieroglyphs that were not spoken or translated. They help make the meaning of words clearer and mark the end of words.
What are Determinatives?
a unique feature of these mummies. During a person’s life, an artist painted an image of him/her on wood.
What would artists paint during a persons life?
The ancient Egyptians believed in the gods and goddesses of Egyptian mythology. Their religion was polytheistic, but towns and villages would often claim a particular god as the one they worshiped most.
What were the Egyptians religion?
He/She began training to become the pharaoh as a young child through a series of lessons.
What was the life of the pharaoh?
She was a fertility goddess and a mother goddess. The goddess with 10,000 names was one of her titles emphasizing her many roles and names. She was the sister-wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus. One of the most famous legends involves Isis putting the body of her husband back together after he was killed by Set, impregnating herself with his body and giving birth to their son Horus.
Who was Isis
Animals like lions or owls represented sounds or ideas. Shapes represented loops of ropes or houses. While many animals or shapes represented the idea they resemble, not all of them did.
What did animals need?
Late Period mummies show a deterioration of embalming techniques.
What would happen to the late period mummies?
The Ancient Egyptian culture consisted of much entertainment.
What did the Egyptians consist much of?
The coronation of a new pharaoh began on the first day of a new season.
When did a New Pharaoh start his/her job?
He was a sun god and the king of the gods.
Who was Horus?
Elite Egyptians, like royals, nobles, priests, and scribes, could read hieroglyphs.
Who was able to read Hieroglyphs?
Mummification began four days after a person’s death. Families took the body to the Nile’s West bank, where the embalmers worked outdoors.
When did a person's mummification occur?
The Egyptians were one of the first people to introduce the use of the ox-drawn plow
Who introduced the use of the ox-drawn plow?