ARCH 141 | Exam 1 | Lecture 4-6

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Bronze Age

(ca.3200-1500) BCE

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Nile River

A river that supplied the fundamental wealth of the land; annual floods encouraged the belief in an eternal order

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Rosetta Stone and hieroglyphics

Pictographic system of writing

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Mastaba

A chamber dug into the ground where the remains of the dead are placed

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Pyramid

Abstract shelters for the spirits of the pharaohs, their queens, and their courtiers, who they believed would live in an eternal afterlife in the company of the lord of the sun.

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Ra

The god of the sun

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Indus River

Similar to the Nile, was

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Djoser’s Tomb (Funerary Complex) and Stepped Pyramid

Saqqâra, Egypt, ca. 2650 BCE

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Great Pyramids

Giza, Egypt, ca. 2551–2472 BCE

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