Ancient Egyptian Art

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1

Is divided into four periods, which are….

  • pre-dynastic

  • old kingdom

  • middle kingdom

  • new kingdom

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2

initially Egypt was divided in half due to…

the nile

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3

the nile was a pivotal…

part of egyptian society

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4

what type of society was egypt?

a polytheistic one

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5

the ancient Egyptian culture was shaped like a…

pyramid

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6

what was the order of hierarchy

  • peasants, slaves

  • merchants

  • religious

  • nobles

  • pharaoh

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7

with the nile you got the ____ plant as well as ___ which was used to cover mummies

“papyrus” plant and “flax”

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8

what did the ancient greeks call egypt?

the cradle of science

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9

they developed what writing system

the hieroglyphics writing system

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10

what profession was very important in its society

priests

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the _____ was akin to your soul or spirit and was important in egyptian culture

the Ka

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12

who were the three important gods

  • Horus

  • Osiris

  • Isis

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13

from the earliest periods of predynastic Egypt, there is evidence of ____ that extended as far east as the indus valley

trade connections

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14

what was the name of the divine order that they believed in and what was the name of the chaos in the world

ma’at was the divine order and isfet was the chaos

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15

who unified upper and lower egypt?

narmer

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16

the hieroglyphic writing system utilized what?

symbols

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17

what helped decode the hieroglyphic writing system?

the rosetta stone

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18

under which period did the Egyptian art style only ever change?

the Armana period under ruler akkanadan

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19

what are pyramids like?

a giant tomb stone

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20

why were bodies preserved?

for the Ka

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21

mummifying and burying the dead was an…

elaborate ritual

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22

when mummifying a body they would sometimes save what?

certain body parts

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23

what materials did they protect the mummies bodies with?

linen and resin

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24

what animal would they mummify because it was sacred in their culture?

cats

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term image
  • title: the great sphinx

  • period: old kingdom, egypt

  • traits: head of a human, body of a lion, had the face of the ruler khafra

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what is a stylistic trait that distinguishes new kingdom from middle or old kingdom?

their art is more colorful and more detailed

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27

which kingdom was considered the high point in egyptian culture?

the new kingdom

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28

where did the center of power move?

south

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29

who was the first female monarch?

queen hatshepsut

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30

in Egyptian imagery, queen Hatshepsut is sometimes shown the same as…

her male counterparts

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31

under what period did the egyptian artwork greatly change?

the amarna period

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32

Akhenaton changed the society from a polytheistic one to a…

monotheistic one

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33

he did this because changing it gave him…

more power and less power was bestowed on the priests

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34

he also changed where the capital was to which city?

tell el-amarna

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35

during the amarna period, names of gods were….

chiseled out of monuments

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36

akhenhaton belived and proclaimed that he was the son and prophet of…

aton

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37

the figures have longer __ which signifies elegance

necks

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38

traditionally a ___ was the vehicle that carried the Ka through its eternal journey in the afterlife

boat

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39

much of the art in the middle kingdom deliberately echoed ___ especially in the funerary realm

old kingdom forms

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depictions of women during the middle kingdom have increasingly narrower ___ and slimmer ___

shoulders and limbs

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while depictions of males often during the middle kingdom have proportionally smaller ___ and lack the tight __ of their old kingdom counterparts

heads, musculature

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