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Osceola Campus – Building 1, Room 104 · Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:45– 2:20 PM
Thebes: Death on the west bank of the Nile Film Response Name: • Score: /40
Please answer the following questions in at least one full sentence each. Attach additional sheets if needed.
1. What did the Egyptian believe was the supreme compensation for a pious life on earth? 2. Ancient Egypt’s greatest concentration of divine and funerary monuments is located at what site? 3. Do the remains of ancient Thebes survive in the present day? 4. Which function(s) of myth did the early myths of tribal Egyptians fulfill? 5. Which god represented the sun as it set? 6. Which god came to represent the sun from dawn to sunset?
7. Which ancient Egyptian temple is the most vast and impressive in Egyptian history? 8. What are the temple’s monumental gateways called? 9. What plant is the flower symbol of Egypt? 10. What does the temple’s sacred lake represent? What was it used for? 11. Who acted as the economic motor of the city of Thebes? 12. Which Egyptian pharaoh began the idea that he was divinely descended?
13. What festival celebrated the pharaoh’s divine birth? 14. Did Everyday ancient Egyptians only worship the official state gods? 15. What did the decoration and dimensions of an Egyptian tomb depend on? 16. Which ancient Egyptian’s tomb does the film explore? 17. The formula for entering the afterlife was recorded in what in text? 18. The 6 meter-deep well in Rameses II’s tomb was meant to do what?
19. Life was given back to the royal image during what ceremony? 20. What is the term for a funeral statue?
