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Flashcards by South Paw H.L #1, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by South Paw H.L #1
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| Question | Answer |
| How much is Pharaoh Tutankhamen gold funerary mask worth in gold scrap ? | ABOUT $1 000 000 |
| How much is Pharaoh Tutankhamen gold funerary mask worth as a work of art? | unlimited sum |
| what were one of the symbols that shows the power of the pharaoh? | a false beard made of goats hair to show his manly power, which came from the god Osiris. |
| What was another symbol? | a shepherd crook called a 'Heka' which he held in one hand which symbolises magic and the pharaoh guardianship |
| What was the meaning of 'Heka'? | =ruler |
| What was another symbol? | a whip called 'nekhata' |
| What was the meaning of 'nekhata' ? | absolute power over his subjects |
| What was another symbol? | an apron called 'shemset' which had a bull hanging from the back of the belt. |
| What was the meaning of 'shemset'? | the representation of the pharaoh strength |
| what was the last symbol? | a crown/ the pharaoh could wear a number of crowns depending on the ceremony |
| what was the double crown or (pschent) | showed his rule over upper and lower egypt |
| what was the nemes crown | It was more a headdress than a crown |
| What was the blue crown or war crown or (khepresh) | it was a tall headdress made of blue cloth or leather decorated with gold discs. often worn at wars or even ceremonies |
| who built the great pyramid at Giza and why? | It was Khufu ,because he forced the people of Egypt to work on his pyramid ,which became known as the GREAT PYRAMID AT GIZA |
| Were women allowed to become pharaoh and who did? | NO and |
| What is the meaning of regent? | (a regent is is a person who governs a kingdom when the monarch cannot do so because he or she are too young) |
| How did she manage it???? | Hatshepsut became royal when she married Thutmose 11. When he died she became much more powerful as a regent for the boy pharaoh Thutmose 111. Thutmose was only eight years old when he came to throne |
| What did she do to hold on to the power? | Hatshepsut was worried the Thutmose the third is getting older so she set one scheme and it was to have an oracle announce that ammun-ra ,the highest of the gods, said that she was to be pharaoh. at that time everyone believed what ammun-ra said. |
| what was another scheme | another old custom was revived when two kings as a joint ruler and eventually Thutmose and Hatshepsut became pharaoh while she was actually doing the real ruling. |
| what did she have to become to be a pharaoh? | Hatshepsut played a male role very thoroughly. She gave up queen and called herself pharaoh. she even dressed like a male with a beard and such. Hatshepsut did things that only pharaohs were allowed to do! =made sacrifices to the god personally, and made sculptures of herself. |
| what did the scribes do? | the scribes were completely lost and confused because a female acting like a male so they put her down as male and female (both genders) |
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