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What god were crocodiles honored as?
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The god Sobek.
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What was associated with the cataracts of the Nile and sacred Satis, Lady of Elphantine, and to Anukis, wife of Khnum and mother of Satis?
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The Gazelle.
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Croodiles would stay submerged near the edge of the river to do what to those trying to wash clothing in the water?
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Eat them
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What was seen as belonging to Set?
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The antelope.
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Crocodiles were often mummified in honor of which god?
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Faiyum
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It was traditional for people to do what when they went across the river? Why?
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They would chant spells so they might make it across without being eaten.
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What was a dreaded job done at the rivers edge?
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Laundry
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Washing dirty laundry in the Nile mad the god dirty, so those who defiled the god were considered ritually what?
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Ritually Unclean
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Why would Hippos come ashore in herds?
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To graze on the marsh vegetation and to sometimes devastate a farmers crop.
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What were animals and plants often themes for?
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They were themes of Religion, Jewelery, sculptures, and wall paintings.
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What two animals were a favored food for wealthy Egyptians?
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Geese and pintail Duck
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Marsh, farmlands and desert were home to a wide variety of what?
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Plants and Wildlife.
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Tomp paintings show Hippo Hunts with what?
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Harpoons and Ropes
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What animals were the east and west of Nile River home to?
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Vultures, falcons, jackals, wild dogs, lions, gazelles, antelopes.
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What was a sacred animal associated with the god Wedjat?
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The Cobra
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Although the Nile was teeming with fish, why did the wealthy not want to eat them?
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Because the fish in the Nile were considered Ritually Unclean and unfit for offering to the king and the temples or as meals for the dead.
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What are the two types of Lotus? (Waterlilies)
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The White (Nymphaea lotos) and the Blue (Nymphaea cerulean)
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The Cobra was a symbol for what two things?
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All of Lower Egypt and also of the Pharoah
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Which animal is guardian to the Egyptian afterlife?
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Anubis
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Why were waterlilies symbols of the sun and the creation from the waters of Nun?
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Because waterlilies close at night and sink below the water only to rise again with the dawn.
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They used lion metaphors for the Sphinx to describe who?
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Their Pharoahs.
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What pyramid/statue was formed in the shape of a lion?
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The Sphinx
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A large bird similar to the griffon vulture appears in most Egyptian Art and as representative of which goddess?
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Nekhbet, the goddess of Upper Egypt
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What was Papyrus (a versatile plant) used to make?
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Paper, Sandals, Boats, Ropes, and Paintbrushes.
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Human mummies have been examined whose missing limbs appear to have been what by crocodiles?
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Bitten off by Crocodiles
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Hippopatamus is a Greek word meaning what?
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"Horse of the River" or "River Horse"
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