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Which two activities were most important to the growth of Egypt?
Mining and tool making
Farming and trade
Dancing and singing
Fishing and sewing
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Egypt is surrounded by ___ continents.
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2
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Egyptians used:
Used the barter system
Money to purchase goods
Items were purchased with gold
Gave items away
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Egyptians:
Lived boring lives
Had many rulers
Were lazy
No longer exist
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Egypt's first pharaoh:
Started a war
United upper and lower Egypt
Built a palace on the Nile
Moved away
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What have scientistis learned from studying mummies?
What kinds of diseases the ancient Egyptians had
How intellegent Egyptians were
What kinds of foods they ate
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What event made it possible for the ancient Egyptians to grow crops?
The Nile flooded its banks yearly
The plow
Fertile soil
A heavy yearly rainfall
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Scribes were:
Justice system
Writers
Civilization
Family
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What is the definition of a dynasty?
A succession of rulers from the same family
Friendly people
A country
Ducks
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What is small particles of sediment and soil that are easily carried in water, often in rivers?
mud
silt
sand
soil
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Why did the ancient Egyptian mummify their dead?
They worshipped their relatives
For health reasons
They believed you needed your body for the afterlife
It was the law
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Who was at the top pf the social pyramid?
Priests
Scribes
Gods
Pharaoh
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In Ancient Egypt people wrote on?
Papyrus
Trees
Tablets
Sand
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How did the Egyptians water their farms?
They used irrigation systems
They used sprinklers
They built around the mountains
They rotated farming with nomdic herding
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What is a cataract?
Another name for the Nile River
Mountain
A waterfall
A river
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What is a Senet?
A type of writing
A pharoah
A board game
A type of food
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Egyptians believed:
The eyes were the most important organ
The heart was the most important organ
The brain was the most important organ
The liver was the most important organ
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Egyptians are well known for?
Agriculture
Pyramids
Friendships
Gold
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What was Egyptian's form of writing called?
Picture Writing
Cursive
Bubble Letters
Hieroglyphics
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Why did the Egyptians travel on the Mediterranean Sea?
To trade with other cultures
To go swimming
To go fishing
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What is a landform usually triangular at the mouth of a river?
A mountain
Ocean
A lake
A delta
22
What is the site of the largest pyramid ever built?
Memphis
Cairo
Upper Egypt
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Who made jewlery and crafts?
Soldiers
Craftsmen
Priests
Servants
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Is a method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops.
Sprinklers
Irrigation
Rivers
Rain
25
People believed pharaohs were?
Trees
Statues
Children of the Gods
Awful
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Egyptians did not rely on _____ for the goods they needed to survive.
Trade
Trees
Buckets
Cars
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What is stored in canopic jars?
Amulets
Natron
Gold
Internal organs
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Why is the Rosetta Stone so important?
It was pretty
Its the oldest artifact ever discovered
It made ii possible to decipher hieroglyphics
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How did Egyptians measure items?
The used sticks
They used their feet
They used tape measures
They measured by using their arm from elbow to fingertip
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What is the name of the river which flows through the desert in North Africa?
Amazon
Nile
Tigris
Euphrates
