Ancient Egypt IS Ancient History Quiz

Answer: Mizraim

Mizraim, is a Hebrew and Aramaic linguistic derivation now named for the land of Egypt, meaning "Ta-Wy"(the two lands). In Genesis 10, Mizraim was the son of Ham, and the younger brother of Cush. When seen as a figure, Mizraim is considered the ancestor of the Egyptian people and several other tribes of Egypt. His name often used as the proper name for Egypt in the Bible, possibly as a dual form to signify Upper and Lower Egypt.

Japheth is considered to have been the older of the three sons of Noah in rabbinic literature. He is one of the sons blessed by Noah - post flood - in the story of Noah's drunkenness. Shem was the other son, with Ham also being one of Noah's three sons. Gomer was the son of Japheth, who was an ancestor of the Cimmerians.

Answer: Aiguptos

It is important to understand that the name of the country of Egypt actually came from the Greek "Aiguptos", and is the ancient Greek word for Egypt. It is also the root of the English word Egypt.

Aiguptos literally means the land of the Nile. The name used for ancient Egypt by the Greeks as early as the time of Homer was Aegyptus (Greek: Aígyptos). Aiguptos is a feminine noun that defined a country on the northeast of Africa (Egypt). The word Aeguptos was derived from "Hwt-Ka-Ptah," which means Temple of the Ka (spirit) of Ptah in ancient Memphis. Ptah was the god of creation, architecture, and craftsmen in ancient Egypt.

Ebronah was the 13th station of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was north of Ezion-geber (Numbers 33:34-35). Ramoth of the Negev is a region that borders the desert of the south of Judah (Joshua 19:8). Akrabbim, meaning scorpions, is an ascent on the southeast frontier of Judah near the south point of the Dead Sea (Judges 1:36).

Answer: True

Cleopatra VII might have been born in Alexandria, Egypt, but she was a Macedonian Greek. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, who, at the time, was a lieutenant and eventually a general of Alexander the Great. She was one of the first Greeks from the Ptolemaic Dynasty to know the Egyptian language at the time of her reign.

Answer: Edfu

The ancient remains of the settlement of Edfu are located about 50 meters to the west of the Ptolemaic temple. It is left of the older temple pylon. In Edfu, Upper Egypt, the Temple of Edfu is located on the west bank of the Nile. The city was known in the Hellenistic period, mostly for the major Ptolemaic temple.

The temple took about 180 years to complete, and was built between 237 BC and 57 BC, into the reign of Cleopatra VII. Of all of the monuments in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most completely preserved. It was built from sandstone blocks, and oriented east to west, facing towards the river.

Answer: mastaba

The mastaba was usually placed on the west side of the Nile because that was where the sun set, and the superstition was that the sun fell into the underworld. The most well known mastaba is the Mastaba of Kaninisut, located at Giza West Field of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was built of the finest quality white Tura limestone during the 4th Dynasty during the reign of Khufu for his relatives. It houses 77 tombs, and is looked at as a cemetery. Mastaba is Arabic for bench. They were usually made from limestone or mud bricks.

An amphora is a form of a vase usually filled with grains, water, oil, or other liquids. Sometimes they had two handles, and were often placed at the site where a buried body lay. A dolmen is a monument made in pre-historic times that was built of two or more vertical rock pillars, usually placed with a flat, or near flat, horizontal stone slab on top of it. Most are found in France or Britain. Often used for the common people to see as a tribute, a catafalque can be a quite ornate structure that is used to hold a casket, sometimes closed or open, so people can pay respects for those lying in state. On occasion they can be seen by moving as in a "funeral car."

Answer: Abu Simbel

Abu Simbel is two monuments, with one dedicated to his favorite wife, Nefertari, while the other one was dedicated to Ramesses II. The carvings were formed out of the front of the cliff-face and were decorated from floor to ceiling.

More during our day and current age, the Aswan High Dam was constructed. Doing so created a lake behind it as is natural when dams are built. Because of this unfortunate event, there were many archaeological remains situated on the banks of the Nile which would end up underwater. Archaeologists identified which ones they wanted to save. Abu Simbel was one of them. However, because this monument was carved into the rock, engineers carefully cut it into blocks and moved it uphill to an artificial mound where it stands today.

Answer: True

It is true. Cleopatra was living closer to our current day and age than she was to the Pyramids of Giza being built. Today, since we are virtually near the beginning of the second millennium, and Cleopatra was ALMOST ruling at the time of Jesus' birth (withing 100 years), it makes it harder to fathom that Cleopatra was alive closer to our current time set.

The Pyramids of Giza were built around 2,750 BC, during the 4th Dynasty. Pharaoh Cleopatra, was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC. The pyramids were built near 2,700 years before the reign of Cleopatra. That means Cleopatra lived, roughly, about 2,075 years since the birth of Jesus Christ.

Answer: Anubis

Anubis was also associated with the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion, and depicted as a canine or a man with a longer canine head. It is said that he attended the weighing scale during the weighing of the heart, in which it was determined whether a soul would be allowed to enter the realm of the dead. Anubis is said to be one of the most often depicted and talked about gods in the Egyptian pantheon.

Ptah is pronounced "Tah", and was considered a major ancient Egyptian creator god, as well as a chief deity of Memphis. Thoth is usually shown as a man with an ibis's head or as a baboon. Horus is usually seen as a major ancient Egyptian sky god, often depicted as a falcon or a falcon-headed man.

Answer: Sobek

Sobek was an Egyptian god of crocodiles, often seen on the walls of tombs. Some say he was the creator of the Nile River, and was often depicted as having a head of a crocodile. His sweat was said to have created the Nile River, thus making him crucial to how the fertility of the land might be through the annual floods. He was also known as a symbol of royal power and was integrated with other gods like Horus and Ra.

Astarte is an Egyptian god of horses, lions, and chariots. Bastet is an Egyptian goddess of cats. Hequet is an Egyptian goddess of frogs.

Answer: Lagori

Lagori is a game played between two teams that involves a ball and seven flat stones. It comes from the Indian subcontinent and is played is a traded outside. It is also called Lingocha. one might often have seen children trying to topple off a stack of stones. One player from the team gets three chances to knock down the seven stones. The idea is that the other team has to try to stack them up again without getting out.

Senet has been dated as old as 3,500 BC and was played on a long board with 30 squares. Queen Nefertari has been depicted playing the game in paintings during that era.

Mehen was associated with the snake deity Mehen, but it is not know if the game comes from the snake god, or if the name of the snake god comes from the game. The rules on how the game was played are not known, even though today there are rules that have been made to play the game.

The ancient game Dogs and Jackals is now called Hounds and Jackals. It is a table game consisting of two sets of 29 holes. During the movie, "The Ten Commandments", it was shown with Pharaoh Seti and Nefertari playing the game. There is abundant evidence for the "Dogs and Jackals" game (also called "58 Holes") in ancient Egypt, and many cases have been found through numerous archaeological discoveries of game boards - parts of dog and jackal heads and other related items have been found in tombs across Egypt. Findings have been dated all the way back to the Middle Kingdom around 2000 BC.