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Ancient Egypt Unit Study Guide
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Irrigation was necessary in Egypt because...
It was cold at night
Rainfall was plentiful in desert areas
Rainfall was plentiful on the Nile Delta
Rainfall was scarce in desert areas
2
What ritual is being shown here?
Blessing
Sacrifice
Mummification
Prayer
3
King Tut wasn't a successful pharaoh, but what made him famous?
He acquired a lot of land in his time as pharaoh.
Untouched tomb; its artifacts helped hostorians understand Egypt
The artifacts found in his tomb were used to gain land.
His tomb was used as a spooky haunted house.
4
Where is the Sahara Desert located?
Asia
Africa
South America
Europe
5
Examining this image, what can we assume about Nubian Culture?
Nubians adopted some of Egypt's cultural practices.
Nubians and Egyptians had similar agricultural practices.
Nubians had different resources than Egyptians
Nubians had similar agricultural practices.
6
What best defines a dynasty?
A series of queendoms
A series of kingdoms
a series of rulers from the same family.
a collection of time periods
7
Who does this gold mask belong to?
Menes
King Tut
Ramses II
Khufu
8
What sums up Queen Hatshepsut's time as pharaoh?
She increased slavery use to build pyramids and monuments.
She created new forms of art & literature.
She valued th input of commanders
She promoted trade over warfare
9
The calendar was based on the flooding of the Nile and...
Agriculture
The moon phases
Constellations
The position of the sun
10
Who signed a peace treaty with the Hittites, ruled for 66 years, and was considered the last great pharaoh?
King Tut
Ramses II
Menes
Khufu
11
Who was the least respected in Ancient Egypt?
People who performed manual labor.
People who carried out religious law
People who were skilled workers and created artistic objects
People who could read and write
12
What part of Egypt is on the lower half of this map?
Lower Egypt
Northern Egypt
Southern Egypt
Upper Egypt
13
What feature is located at the mouth of The Nile River?
Sahara Desert
Sinai Peninsula
Nile Delta
Nubia
14
What do we call this achievement?
Pictographs
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Rosetta stone
15
How did the shadoof help improve life in Ancient Egypt?
It created new technology, which led to an increase in trade
It helped create pyramids, which
It helped increase slave labor which increased building production.
Improved farming which led to a food surplus
16
What guards the pharaohs tomb?
Sphinx
Pyramid
Ziggurat
Obelisk
17
Which is true about the Nile...
Easily traveled with sailing crafts
Floods annually and improves the soil.
Flows North into the Meditterranean Sea.
Dense forests provided natural resources.
18
What do we call the "paper" that Egyptians wrote hieropglyphics on?
Clay
Papel
Paper
Papyrus
19
Nile Flooding
Annual flooding that leaves silt and improves the soil for farming
Twice a year flooding that leaves silt and improves the soil for farming
Monthly flooding that leaves silt and improves the soil for farming
Quarterly flooding that leaves silt and improves the soil for farming
20
Pharaohs...
completed the mummification process
Ran the government and performed religious rituals
crafted and traded items
Kept records and recorded history
21
What's the purpose of this achievement?
A place to store the food surplus.
A temple to worhsip the gods/
A palace for the pharaoh
A tomb for the pharaoh
22
What was King Tut's real name?
Tutanoften
Tutkhufu
Tutshepsut
Tutankhamen
23
What is this?
Artisan
Shadoof
Obelisk
Sphinx
24
Surrounding Deserts helped the Egyptians by...
Deserta provided water for food and shelter
Providing wood to build boats
They made it easier to trade with other civilizations.
Providing a natural barrier to defend against enemy invasion
25
"Nubian merchants traded with people from other cultures" Which of the following resulted from this?
Nubian women visited the Kings and Queens of other cultures.
Nubians studies Egyptian farming techniques and copied them.
Nubians begin to adopt ideas from other cultures.
Nubian Kings forced people to travel
26
What was mummification used for?
To preserve the body so everyone would remember the pharaohs
To mummify slaves and peasants so they could never go to the afterlife.
So people would still be afraid of the pharaohs.
Preserve the body for the spirit to use in the afterlife and not get lost
27
Lower Egypts is....
Farther west into the Sahara Desert
South and extends into Nubia
North and extends to the Mediterranean Sea
East into the Red Sea