Egypt - test 1/11/20123
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 delta | small channels & streams that form a triangle of marshy land |
| nilometer | measuring device used to help predict the height of the coming floods |
| shait | first season |
| piruit | the season of emergence the soil is ready for planning |
| shaduf | type of lever made from a pole on a pivot |
| shemu- season of harvest | when crops are gathered by all members of family & great feasts are planned |
| three tools used for farming | shaduf mattack & dike |
| three gifts of the nile | water, bath & food |
| transpire | to happen, occur, take place |
| vast | great in size, very massive |
| dynasty | family of rulers throughout history |
| replenish | to make complete agan, to refill |
| abundant | of great quantity, surplus |
| ambitious | eager to achieve, showing exceptional effort |
| conceive | to form or create |
| diligently | done in a persistent way |
| bartering | the way the ancient egyptians traded goods |
| open markets | where egyptians did their shopping |
| who were some of the egyptian foreign trade partner | Lebanon, Crete Nubia & Punt |
| What were some of the items imported into Egypt from lebanon crete nubia | cedar, olive oil ebony ivory gold cinnamon animals stones |
| largest export from egpyt | papyrus- items from flax -buliding stones copper gold crops like grain |
| scribe | people who can read & write |
| papyrus | reed plant that grows abundantely along the bank of the nile river |
| what did the egyptians make from the hard outer layer of the papyrus reeds | boats, baskets & sandels |
| purpose of pounding the papyrus strips | to get rid of sap |
| hieroglyphics | system of writing that used over 700 pictures & signs to stand for objects, sounds & ideas |
| egyptians spoke | arabic |
| demotic | an old form of egyptian written language used for everyday purposes |
| rosetta stone | piece of stone found in with carvings from 3 languages: hieroglyphics, demotic & greek |
| jean francois champollion | solved the puzzle of the hieroglyphics & greek lettering that must mean the same |
| hieroglyphics are read | right to left |
| mastaba | first tomb where the body is buried |
| name three types of tombs | tutankhamen (tut), psusennes & mastaba |
| two types of simple machines | wedge & hammer |
| the people who built pyramids | laborers, slaves, farmers, massons |
| people are buried on which side of the nile | west side |
| farmers worked on building projects for the pharaoh | to honor the pharaoh who was a living God pleasing them helps you get into the afterlife |
| mummy | body that has been dried out |
| where were people first buried | in the sand which dried them out & made them as hard as a stone |
| it was important to mummify a body because | then the KING kA & bA would be able to recognize in the afterlife |
| mummification took | 70 days |
| 4 major organs removed | stomach intestine liver & lungs |
| canolpic jar | where organs were placed |
| natron | salt like substance to suck water out of body |
| body covered | for 40 days |
| resin | body was smeared with this |
| sarcophagus | the outer coffin that was made of stone |
| book of dead | collection of spells to help the soul travel through the underworld which was full of monsters traps mazes & other dangers |
| opening of the mouth ceremony | gave mummy ability to speak eat & move in afterlife |
| Akenaten | he changed the religion from the belief in many gods to only one god |
| King Tut | he was a boy pharaoh that came after akentan and changed the egyptian ways to what they were like before |
| ramses II | bulit more temples |
| Cleopatra | came from powerful family, a greek ruling family that lasted more than 300 years |
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