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Is divided into four periods, which are….
pre-dynastic
old kingdom
middle kingdom
new kingdom
initially Egypt was divided in half due to…
the nile
the nile was a pivotal…
part of egyptian society
what type of society was egypt?
a polytheistic one
the ancient Egyptian culture was shaped like a…
pyramid
what was the order of hierarchy
peasants, slaves
merchants
religious
nobles
pharaoh
with the nile you got the ____ plant as well as ___ which was used to cover mummies
“papyrus” plant and “flax”
what did the ancient greeks call egypt?
the cradle of science
they developed what writing system
the hieroglyphics writing system
what profession was very important in its society
priests
the _____ was akin to your soul or spirit and was important in egyptian culture
the Ka
who were the three important gods
Horus
Osiris
Isis
from the earliest periods of predynastic Egypt, there is evidence of ____ that extended as far east as the indus valley
trade connections
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
who unified upper and lower egypt?
narmer
the hieroglyphic writing system utilized what?
symbols
what helped decode the hieroglyphic writing system?
the rosetta stone
under which period did the Egyptian art style only ever change?
the Armana period under ruler akkanadan
what are pyramids like?
a giant tomb stone
why were bodies preserved?
for the Ka
mummifying and burying the dead was an…
elaborate ritual
when mummifying a body they would sometimes save what?
certain body parts
what materials did they protect the mummies bodies with?
linen and resin
what animal would they mummify because it was sacred in their culture?
cats
title: the great sphinx
period: old kingdom, egypt
traits: head of a human, body of a lion, had the face of the ruler khafra
what is a stylistic trait that distinguishes new kingdom from middle or old kingdom?
their art is more colorful and more detailed
which kingdom was considered the high point in egyptian culture?
the new kingdom
where did the center of power move?
south
who was the first female monarch?
queen hatshepsut
in Egyptian imagery, queen Hatshepsut is sometimes shown the same as…
her male counterparts
under what period did the egyptian artwork greatly change?
the amarna period
Akhenaton changed the society from a polytheistic one to a…
monotheistic one
he did this because changing it gave him…
more power and less power was bestowed on the priests
he also changed where the capital was to which city?
tell el-amarna
during the amarna period, names of gods were….
chiseled out of monuments
akhenhaton belived and proclaimed that he was the son and prophet of…
aton
the figures have longer __ which signifies elegance
necks
traditionally a ___ was the vehicle that carried the Ka through its eternal journey in the afterlife
boat
much of the art in the middle kingdom deliberately echoed ___ especially in the funerary realm
old kingdom forms
depictions of women during the middle kingdom have increasingly narrower ___ and slimmer ___
shoulders and limbs
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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