Gods, temples and beliefs in ancient Egypt
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Temples and changes over time
When Place What happened Middle and New Kingdoms (2025 to 1700 and 1550 to 1069 BCE) Thebes, about 700 km south of Cairo the city of the god Amun was a capital, with great temples at Karnak and Luxor about 1351 to 1334 BCE Akhet-Aten (Amarna) King Akhenaten founded a city for the sun-disk Aten; Amun's name was erased after Akhenaten's reign Akhet-Aten (Amarna) the city was soon abandoned; Akhenaten's changes were short-lived 1290 to 1279 BCE Abydos wall pictures in a temple for King Sety I show the daily offering ritual about 945 to 800 BCE Karnak, at Thebes papyrus records were made of the daily ritual for Amun and the goddess Mut about 430 BCE Egypt Herodotus, a Greek visitor, wrote about Egyptian customs Beside the chart: Herodotus, Histories, Book II, chapter 37, in the English translation by A. D. Godley (1920): "They are beyond measure [very greatly] religious, more than any other nation; and these are among their customs:—They drink from cups of bronze, which they cleanse out daily; this is done not by some but by all."
What did Akhenaten found, Kira asks?
- A temple for Thoth at Abydos
- A city for the sun-disk Aten
- A capital at Thebes for Amun
- A Greek school in Egypt
What happened to Akhet-Aten after Akhenaten's reign, Milo asks?
- It was soon abandoned
- It became the city of Amun
- It was moved to Abydos
- It was Egypt's capital for centuries
What does Herodotus say about Egyptians and religion, Noah asks?
- Less religious than the Greeks
- Religious on festival days and no others
- Very religious, more than other nations
- Hardly religious, unlike the other nations
In the passage, what did Egyptians clean every day, Pia asks?
- Their gold drinking cups
- Their village wells
- Their fishing boats on the Nile River
- Their bronze drinking cups
How do we know the steps of the daily ritual, by the chart, Tala asks?
- The Herodotus passage by itself
- Wall pictures and papyrus records
- Akhenaten's letters to Greece
- Photographs taken by priests at the time
Which source in the chart was made by an outsider, Zee asks?
- Sety I's temple pictures
- The Karnak papyrus records
- The plan of Akhet-Aten
- Herodotus's description
Why are the wall pictures at Abydos strong evidence of the ritual, Ari asks?
- Egyptians made them at the time
- They were made in 1920
- A Greek visitor drew them in the 400s BCE
- They show modern priests
Bo's note says, "Akhenaten made Amun the chief god." Which fix is right?
- Change god to city
- Change Akhenaten to Herodotus
- Leave it: Amun was a state god
- Change Amun to the sun-disk Aten
Esme's note says, "Egyptians believe Ra crosses the sky." Which fix is right?
- Change it to: Egyptians believed
- Leave it: it is a fact today
- Change sky to river
- Change Ra to Herodotus
Jun's note says, "Herodotus wrote the passage in 1920." Which fix is right?
- Change Herodotus to Sety I
- Change 1920 to 1351 BCE
- Leave it: 1920 is on the card
- Change 1920 to about 430 BCE