Life in Ancient Egypt

Question 1

The performance of rituals and care of the temples were the duties of who?

Accepted Answer

priests

Question 2

In the ancient Egyptians writing system, the symbols that stood for words and sounds were what?

Accepted Answer

hieroglyphs

Question 3

By studying the movements of a star, Egyptians developed the world's first practical what?

Accepted Answer

calendar

Question 4

Egyptians preserved the bodies of the dead through a process called what?

Accepted Answer

embalming

Question 5

Egyptians believed that once they had died, they could look forward to a happy what?

Accepted Answer

afterlife

Question 6

Unlike in many other societies in the ancient world, Egypt granted fairly equal rights to whom?

Accepted Answer

women

Question 7

A body that has been dried to prevent decay is known as a(n) what?

Accepted Answer

mummy

Question 8

In Egyptian belief, the heart of a dead person was weighed by a jackal-headed god named who?

Accepted Answer

Anubis

Question 9

Egyptians made scrolls from a paperlike material called what?

Accepted Answer

papyrus

Question 10

In ancient Egypt, people who kept records were called what?

Accepted Answer

scribes

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