Ancient Egypt

Question 1

Who benefited the most from taxes in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 2

A triangular area of land formed from at the mouth of a river?

Accepted Answer

Delta

Question 3

What is an ancient record keeper?

Accepted Answer

Scribe

Question 4

The Rosetta stone was used by scholars to?

Accepted Answer

Translate hieroglyphics

Question 5

The major organs (except for the heart) of a dead body were placed in what in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Canopic jars

Question 6

A mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a man?

Accepted Answer

Sphinx

Question 7

What is the Book of the Dead?

Accepted Answer

Book of magic spells made to assist a dead person's journey

Question 8

Who was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Cleopatra

Question 9

How did the Nile River benefit Egyptians?

Accepted Answer

Provided natural irrigation, fresh water, and fertilization

Question 10

A process that prevents a body from decaying so it can go to the afterlife?

Accepted Answer

Mummification

Question 11

The first female pharaoh (ruler)?

Accepted Answer

Hatshepsut

Question 12

Which was further north?

Accepted Answer

Lower Egypt

Question 13

Pictures that represent ideas, things or sounds, and used in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Hieroglyphics

Question 14

When a pharaoh died in Egypt, what did the priests do with the body?

Accepted Answer

Embalm it

Question 15

What is a tall and thin 4-sided monument?

Accepted Answer

obelisk

Question 16

The name of a jackal-headed god associated w/ mummification & afterlife in Egyptian religion?

Accepted Answer

Anubis

Question 17

An immense structure that served as a tomb for a pharaoh in the Old Kingdom is called a?

Accepted Answer

pyramid

Question 18

What did the Egyptians do to control the Nile River?

Accepted Answer

Build dams

Question 19

A series of rulers that all come from the same family is called a?

Accepted Answer

Dynasty

Question 20

Name the type of religion in Ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Polytheistic

Question 21

Which of the following was NOT an important burial practice of the Egyptians?

Accepted Answer

worshipping of many detailed obelisks

Question 22

Lack is to need as excess is to ___________.

Accepted Answer

Surplus

Question 23

Name the type of government in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

monarchy

Question 24

If I went to school in ancient Egypt, my school work would be written on?

Accepted Answer

Papyrus

Question 25

The Nile River ended in a what?

Accepted Answer

Delta

Question 26

What is a special advisor to the pharaoh?

Accepted Answer

Vizier

Question 27

What was a sarcophagus?

Accepted Answer

A large stone coffin

Question 28

Name the son of Isis and Osiris?

Accepted Answer

Horus

Question 29

What natural boundary prevented Egyptians from traveling the full length of the Nile River?

Accepted Answer

Cataracts

Question 30

Pharaoh Hatshepsut was what?

Accepted Answer

Woman

Question 31

The economic system of the Egyptians did NOT involve.....?

Accepted Answer

payments for products in ancient coins

Question 32

Young king whose tomb was filled w/ jewelry, robes, burial masks, & ivory statues. Died at 18.

Accepted Answer

King Tut

Question 33

The family of the deceased person would leave what with the sarcophagus?

Accepted Answer

Games, clothes, food, gold, jewelry

Question 34

What is a good the ancient Egyptians PRODUCED that could have been traded?

Accepted Answer

linen

Question 35

Peasant was to poor and low as ______ was to wealthy and high.

Accepted Answer

Noble

Question 36

The God Osiris, king of the dead and symbol of immortality, was shown with?

Accepted Answer

Scepter and a whip

Question 37

Which Egyptian ruler had the Great Pyramid of Giza built as his or her tomb?

Accepted Answer

Khufu

Question 38

What were local Egyptian economies based on?

Accepted Answer

bartering goods and services

Question 39

On which continent is Egypt located?

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 40

What is this a picture of?

Accepted Answer

sphinx

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