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28 Cards in this Set
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Akhenaten set up a new capital at ____________.
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- Tell el-Amarna
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Hieroglyphic art on the Palette of Narmer is an example of the use of ____________.
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- Hieratic scale
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Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt were united around ____________.
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- 3000 BCE
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In the Rosetta Stone, hieroglyphs are juxtaposed with ____________ writing.
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- Greek
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____________ was a woman who was represented in art as a male king.
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- Hatshepsut
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Relief sculpture usually relies on ____________ alone for its effect.
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- The play of light and shadow.
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In ancient Egypt, ____________ could only be practiced by artists working for the king.
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- Glassmaking
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The Necropolis was an important part of ancient Egyptian ____________ architecture.
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- Funerary
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____________ was a divine consort and virgin priestess of Amon.
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- Karomama
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The Egyptian symbol of the looped cross, or ____________, represented everlasting life.
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- ankh
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The earliest glass objects made in Egypt were produced using a technique called ___________.
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- Core-formed glassmaking.
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The Rock-Cut tombs of Beni Hasan were built during the ____________.
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- Middle Kingdom
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The colossal statues of ____________ were moved to higher ground in the 1960s to avoid flooding from the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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- Ramses II
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Among ancient Egyptian pictorial symbols, a White crown symbolizes
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- Upper Egypt
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Imhotep served as designer of ____________ tomb complex.
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- Djoser's
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____________ was associated with a religion honoring a single sun deity.
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- Akhenaten
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The ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, often depicted in Books of the Dead, was ___________.
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- Osiris
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____________ is located in Lower Egypt.
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- Saqqara
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An ancient Egyptian inscription says: " Become a ____________ so that your limbs remain smooth and your hands soft and you can wear white and walk like a man of standing whom [even] courtiers will greet."
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- Scribe
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The Great Temple of Amun was located in ____________.
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- Karnak
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Necropolis means "City of the ____________."
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- Dead
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The eye of Horus was an Egyptian symbol known as the ____________.
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- Wedjat
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The key artifact in deciphering the Egyptian language was the ____________.
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- Rosetta Stone
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Egyptians typically built their residences with ____________.
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- Mud bricks
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The boy-king ____________ untouched tomb was discovered in 1922.
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- Tutankhamun's
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The Great Sphinx combines the body of a crouching lion with a face that was intended to represent ____________.
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Khafre
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____________ discovered Tutankhamun's tomb.
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- Howard Carter
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The Tomb of Ramose is from the ____________.
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- New Kingdom
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