Egyptian Geography
The name of the annual and predictable flooding that occurred in Egypt.
What is the inundation?
The name of the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt. His name means Catfish Chisel.
Who is Narmer?
Regional governors who declared independence from Pharaoh during the 1st intermediate Period and became more powerful.
What are Nomarchs?
Jackal headed god that weighed the heart.
The hippo/crocodile/lion god that would eat your heart if you failed that was called "the devourer of the dead".
Who is Anubis?
Who is Ammit?
The material that the Egyptians used as paper made from reeds.
What is Papyrus?
The black soil left over from the flooding that made the land more fertile.
What is silt?
The last king of the Old Kingdom. Lived 94 years.
Who is Pepi II?
The pharaoh that united Upper and Lower Egypt after the 1st Intermediate Period, beginning the Middle Kingdom.
Who is Menuhotep II?
What is Natron?
An oval shape that encircled a royal name.
What is a cartouche?
The direction the Nile flows and why it flows that way.
What is north? What is elevation?
The Pharaoh that oversaw the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Who is Khufu?
The pharaoh known for conquering Nubia up to the 3rd Cataract and having a chain of fortresses along the Nile.
Who is Senusret III?
The trial before the weighing of the heart (Name who presided over this trial and what you had to do to pass).
What is the Negative Confession?
The name of the people that invaded Lower Egypt and ruled over the Nile Delta during the 2nd Intermediate Period.
Who are the Hyksos?
The Capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom.
What is Memphis?
The first structure that Egyptians built in order to bury their dead. It looked like a rectangular building.
What is a Mastaba?
A system of having both a father and son share rulership. This helped prepare the heir to rule more effectively.
What is co-regency?
The names of the guidebooks for the dead in this order:
For pharaoh only and was written on the walls of the inner chamber of the pyramids.
For the rich/middle class and was written on the sides of a stone coffin.
For anyone though the quality would vary based on the costs. A papyrus scroll buried with the dead.
What are the Pyramid Texts?
What are the Coffin Texts?
What are the Books of the Dead?
What are chariots/bronze weapons/composite bows?
What are horses/humpack zebu cattle?
The Capital of Egypt at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
What is Thebes?
Name the three Pyramids that Snefru oversaw in the order they were built.
What is the Meidum, Bent, and Red Pyramid.
The timeline of Ancient Egypt in order. (All Kingdoms and Periods)
What is the Old Kingdom, 1st Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom, 2nd Intermediate Period, New Kingdom.
Life force or spirtual double that required food offerings.
Soul or personality that could travel with a body of a bird and head of a human.
These two unite into a transfigured soul after passing the trials.
What is Ka?
What is Ba?
What is Akh?
Languages: What are Greek and Egyptian?
Scripts: What are Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek?