Architecture
Egyptian terms
Art terms
Burial traditions
Religion
100
a fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city.
what is a citadel
100
What object has a daily use item commonly found in the Predynastic period- they were generally flat, minimally decorated stone objects used for grinding and mixing minerals for cosmetics.
What is palette
100
A form of art that demonstrates an accurate depiction of real life.
What is realism?
100
especially in ancient egypt to preserve a body by embalming and wrapping it in cloth
what is mummification
100
These figures are small statues made by ancient Egyptians as offerings to deities. These figures represented the individuals who dedicated them and were used in religious rituals.
What is Votive figures?
200
Some of the most magnificent man-made structures in history. Their massive scale reflects the unique role that the pharaoh, or king, played in ancient Egyptian society.
What is true Pyramid?
200
A variation of relief carving, found almost exclusively in ancient Egyptian sculpture, is sunken relief
What is Sunken Relief 
200
enigmatic or incomprehensible
what is hieroglyphics 
200
a cemetery, especially a large one belonging to an ancient city
what is necropolis
200
the belief in the existence of one God
what is monothesim
300
An architectural structure that uses flat platforms, or steps.
What is stepped pyramid?
300
The Egyptians believed this significant thing to be the mediator between the gods and the world of men.
What is Pharoah
300
Served a religious and cultural purpose, emphasizing the importance of the subject matter.
What is Stylized
300
Standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker.
Stele 
300
Are large, often intricately designed structures that serve as places of worship and spiritual practice within Hinduism.
What is Temple Complexes? 
400
a line of hereditary rulers of a country
what is a dynasty 
400
horizontal bands or divisions within a composition that separate different stories or different scenes.
What is Registers? 
400
a carved tablet or drawing representing a scroll with rolled-up ends, used ornamentally or bearing an inscription.
what is a cartouche 
400
a covered urn used in ancient Egyptian burials to hold the entrails from an embalmed body
what is a canopic jar
400
This is a pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia.
What is Ziggurat?
500
interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns
what is hypostyle hall 
500
denoting or relating to the wedge shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets
what is cuneiform 
500
a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
What is a scribe
500
A burial chamber that is cut into an existing, naturally occurring rock formation.
What is rock-cut tomb
500
The belief in many gods and their worship.
What is Polytheism? 