Test Notes

  • Egyptian astronomers created a calendar with 12 months and 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycles
  • Wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transportation ability on the Nile
  • The pyramids were massive stone tombs covered in marble but the marble was later stripped off during the Muslim conquest
  • The temple of Amon at Karnak is the largest religious building in the world also made out of house blocks of stone
  • Stone sculptures and interior painting depicted humans and Gods in a series of regulates poses often
  •  Egyptians believed in an afterlife(ka) and they mummified bodies to preserve them for this post death journey
  • All souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and be either sent to and after world paradise or the jaws of a monster

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