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Explain religion with Egyptians |
They were very religious They believed they could defeat death by denying its reality |
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Egyptians and Death explain |
The cared more about the after life than they did about their time on earth. |
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Where was Memphis? |
It was located near Cairo |
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Jed/ Jade Pillar |
associated with stability and strength |
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Animal amulet |
Believed to give them the strength of the animal and or power of the animal |
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What is the Ankh |
It is associated with Isis |
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What is a Scarab? |
Shape of a beetle, normally with a large inscription on the bottom. Used as a stamp, wax seal, was a logo. |
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How many classes of writing and what were they? |
There were three classes |
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Hieroglyphs |
Used on stones
filled with paste |
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Demotic Writing |
Shorthand of Heiratic Used on legal documents used in the late era |
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Heiratic |
Used on papyrus cursive and was abbreviated used for letters, text didn't survive well |
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Coptic |
Greek Version |
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Does Demotic writing go left or write? |
It goes write to left |
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Rosetta Stone |
Discovered by Napoleons army It is written in Hieroglyphs, Hieratic and Greek Cartouche Broke the code The same names on the cartouche were also found on the stone |
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Herodutos |
450 bc, Got a lot of info on Egypt Who knows how accurate it is |
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Manetho |
280 BC, High priest of Heliopolus He wanted to prove Egypt was older than Syria He was the First to codefy the Kings list |
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The Kings list |
List of kings and had to be chronological to fit |
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Palermo Stone |
Palmermo history up to Dynasty 5 |
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Manetho and the dynasties |
He created 3 dynasties but it was slightly innacurate |
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Kings list innacurate |
Some of the names of the kings, have no evidence of existent. Some names have existed but aren't found on the list. |
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Memphis |
Once was a massive city surrounded by a giant white wall. It is called " Where the thing converges" Destroyed in the middle ages for church material 99% destroyed by recycling |
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What is Egyptomania |
Make things egyptian like to sell them mushed things vaugley egyptian together. Pretty much sumerian, akkadian infused stuff popular in 1900's |
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What was the Papyrus and Lotus Flower? |
They both tied together The Papyrus was a symbol of lower Egypt Lotus was symbol of Upper Egypt |
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Green Face |
Symbol of ressurection |
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Khepri |
A beetle that rolled in the sun |
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Explain Egyptians and Gods |
A lot of Gods and they didn't any Gods were formed in previous rulings and were added in the new rulings. |
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Egyptians and Death expain |
They believed everything on earth went with you to the Afterlife. |
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Group of Deities explain |
Pairs - 2 Triads -3 Tetrads -4 Hebdomads - 7 Ogdoad - 8 Enneads - 9 |
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Nomes |
A district There were 42 nomes and one rose to a major city if a nome became big, your gods were the main gods |
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Papyrus |
White delta lower |
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Temple of Isis Philae what happened? |
in 1913 the dam cause flooding |
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Abu Simbel |
Cut down the Temple and moved it Egypt gave small temple for other countries help with the dam |
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What did the British build in the 1900's? |
They built the Aswan high dam |
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Aswan dam |
Was added onto twice to help prevent flooding After WWII, a new dam was built in 1960 it was finally complete |
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What does the dam do? |
Helps grow 3 crops stores water generates electricity Artificial fertilizer imported Salt accumulates and blows up stone |
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Egypt was called... |
The Gift of the Nile by Herodotus in 450 BC |
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King Scorpian |
Actually existed and cleaned out the canals and re serviced the land |
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Average life expectancy |
35 years wealthy 60-80 years Servant girls lived to 25 A lot of TB Sometimes had rocks in meals and broke teeth |
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How was papyrus made? |
It was made by weaving and stone pressing together |
