African Civilization Test

Ra

Sun god of Egypt

Anubis

God of mummification

Osiris

God of the underworld

Isis

Egyptian goddess of fertility

Set

God of chaos/evil

Horus

sky god and son of Isis and Osiris also was god of protection in egypt

Nile River

The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered around.

Aten

sun god for 20 years

Akhenaten

early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with Aten, the sun god.

Hatshepsut

First female pharaoh

Tutenkhamen

Son of Akhenaten who was killed at a young age, he was one of the most famous finds by archaeologists

Menes

The king who unifed Egypt.

Giza

The city where the Great Pyramids are located.

Pyramid of Khufu

the great pyramid of Giza, oldest and largest of the three pyramids in Giza

Djoser's Step Pyramid

Oldest pyramid in Egypt

What animal was buried with its owner

Cats

Hieroglyphics

An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds mostly used for religious purposes

Demotic Script

common writing of the Egyptians

Sahel

Where Sahara transitions to savanah

Kush

Nubian kingdom next to Egypt

Apedemak

Chief Nubian god (in Kush), lion headed warrior

Pshent

Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt

Is upper egypt southern or northern

Southern

Is lower egypt southern or northern

Northern

Who's tomb was not robbed and well preserved

King tut

Nefertiti

Wife of Akhenaton

What did Anubis do?

He guided people to the underworld

What did Ra look like?

Hawk with a circle on its head

What did Horus look like?

Man with the head of a hawk

What did Anubis look like?

head of a jackal

What did Osiris look like?

Green mummy

What happend that Osiris is a mummy and in the underworld

Osiris's brother Set killed and chopped up his body but isis Osiris's wife resewed/rebuilt Osiris but now he can only exists in the underworld

underworld

the world of the dead

Afterlife in Egypt

was a carefree continuation of earthly existence

What is Ba

Your body after you die

What is Ka?

Your soul after you die

What was believed was happening every day

Ra was eaten by Nut, night sky god, and reborn by day

Hapi

God of the Nile

Rosetta Stone

a huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek,and Demotic Script that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.

What language was not dead on the Rosetta Stone?

Greek

Why was it weird that king tuts tomb was messy?

Because usually tombs were neatly orangized and not rushed in any way

What did Menes do?

United upper and lower Egypt and he was the first pharaoh and founded Memphis

How were Egyptians able to build the pyramids

Because they were do disconnected from other civilization

Ramsses II

the best known pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
probably because of his biblical association with the book of Exodus

Who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt?

Prince Ahmose

Hyksos

a group of nomadic invaders from southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C.

Senet

A board game played by the Ancient Egyptians.

Herodotus

Coined the term "gift of the Nile"

How were the Egyptians able to defeat the Hyksos?

During Hyksos rule, the Egyptians improved their fighting skills by learning to drive chariots

How were you judged in the underworld?

Osiris would weigh your heart (that was kept in your body apart from other organs )with a feather. If it's heavier, you dont exist anymore, it weighs the same or lighter, you go into the afterlife.

What was believed the afterlife was?

A positive continuation of your life on earth

Why was your heart left in you apart from your other organs

So it can be weighed by Osiris

Why were your valuables placed inside a tomb when you died

So you could bring them with you to the afterlife

How did they take your brain out of your head

Through your nose

what was fertile soil called

Silt

Nubia

Things start by the nile/first civilization/polytheism/Worshiped same god as Egypt

Old Era

Age of pyramids

Middle Era

Age of Chaos

New Era

Age of Pharaohs

Who did kush worship for protection in war?

Epidemic

What did king metuhotep do?

Unites land and moves capital city to Thebes

What did king tut do?

Changed religion to polytheism, They called him "the living image of aten" ruled when he was 9-18

What did Ramses II do?

Powerful pharaoh of new era, a lot of places in Egypt mention him

What did prince Ahmose do?

Unites Egypt under central government Changes capital to thebes

What is Theocracy?

Priest rule