stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Ancient Egypt Summative Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Ancient Egypt Summative
What did the Egyptians use for paying taxes?
What body of water does the Nile flow into?
Ancient Egypt Summative
27 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
2,356 plays
Chapter 4.1
Flashcards
27 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
27
Answers
1
What body of water does the Nile flow into?
The Mediterranean Sea
The Caspian Sea
The Red Sea
The A-B Sea
2
What did the Egyptians use for paying taxes?
Currency
Crops
Ivory
Gold
3
Choose the correct order of the process of the Nile yearly flood and its contribution to Egypt.
River floods, water recedes, soil=fertile, river depos silt
River floods, water recedes, depos. silt, land=fertile
Depos. silt, water recedes, land=fertile, river floods
Water recedes, river depos silt, river floods, soil= fertile
4
What group became very powerful & wealthy b/c of the importance of religion to the Egyptians?
Farmers
Artisans
Scribes
Priests
5
How did the Egyptians try to appease the gods?
They built pyramids
They built temples and made offerings
They made sacrifices to the Nile
They built all their monuments on the east of the Nile
6
Goddess of protection and wife to Osiris
Horus
Osiris
Isis
Amon-Re
7
Which direction does the Nile flow?
West
South
North
East
8
How many layers of the social pyramid existed in ancient Egypt?
4
5
3
1
9
What did the Egyptians call the area that was outside the fertile area?
The Grey Land
Sparkly Land
The Black Land
The Red Land
10
The god of the underworld
Amon-Re
Isis
Osiris
Horus
11
Why did the Egyptians follow the Pharaoh with complete devotion?
They knew they would be killed if they didn't
They believed him to be a god
They believe the world would end if they didn't
He was always very kind and generous
12
What landform contains Egypt's largest area of fertile soil?
Upper Egypt
The Western desert
The Nile Delta
The Cataracts of the Nile
13
The pharaoh in human form of this god
Osiris
Isis
Horus
Amon-Re
14
Because they were polytheistic, the Egyptians worshiped...
Many gods
Animal gods
One god
Nature gods
15
What fine mineral particles are deposited when the Nile waters recede after the flood?
Silt
Ash
Pencil shavings
Cataracts
16
A system of offices and government officials is known as...
Monarchy
Bureaucracy
Conscription
Democracy
17
Should I study my maps of Egypt?
Maybe
YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!
Nah.
Only if I have time.
18
What's special government official traveled through Egypt and kept records for the government?
Scribe
Vizier
Narmach
Peasant
19
Why did the Egyptians mummify their dead?
To show devotion to their god
To preserve the body for the afterlife
To scare away tomb robbers
To be used as medicine
20
Who was the head of the bureaucracy?
Pharaoh
Vizier
Namarch
Scribe
21
Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt and founded Egypt's first ruling family or...
Dynasty
Empire
Bureaucracy
Namarch
22
What are cataracts?
Measurements used to gauge the level of the Nile's flood
Branches of the Nile
Rapids in the Nile
Reeds that grow along the Nile river
23
What were the leaders of Egypt called?
Pharaoh
Namarchs
Kings
Emperor
24
What were the Egyptian gods often associated with?
The Nile
Humans
Death
Animals
25
In what region is the Nile Delta?
Eastern desert
Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt
Sinai Peninsula
26
Why did the Egyptians call their land Kemet?
They thought it would be funny to call it Kemet the frog
It was very fertile, so the soil was dark.
It was so dry that very little would grow there
The sands of the desert were very dark in color
27
The son god and king of the gods
Osiris
Horus
Amon-Re
Isis
