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Chapter 4 Ancient Egypt & Nubia
Chapter 4 Ancient Egypt & Nubia
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Artists created paintings in pyramids&burial chambers depicting daily Egyptian life primarily
encourage sight-seeing and visitors to the tombs.
decorate and beautify the resting place of the pharaoh.
provide the person buried w/servants and things they needed
increase the value of the tomb and pyramid.
2
Which difference between civilizations of Egypt &Nubia were the Nile cataracts responsible for?
Food production
Engineering
Government
Transportation
3
What was unusual about Hatshepsut's rule?
She co-ruled with her cousin.
She was a woman ruler.
She built a pyramid in Nubia.
She fought too many battles.
4
The Book of the Dead was a well-known piece of Egyptian literature that
served as a guide to the afterlife for dead souls.
explained the succession of pharaohs from 1 dynasty to next.
Egyptian official who was accused of killing a pharaoh.
was a list of important citizens and officials who had died.
5
Ideas spread from Egypt to other lands through the buying and selling of goods and services
commerce
bureaucracy
artistry
interdependence
6
Trade between Nubia and Egypt created _____ since each country depended on the other for goods it did not have
pharaoh
scribes
interdependence
anatomy
7
Those responsible for using hieroglyphics to record important inform & maintain records
pharaohs
bureaucrats
scribes
artisans
8
The Nubians created one of the world’s first alphabets called _______________ .
cuneiform
English
Spanish
Meroitic script
9
To construct pyramids,Egyptians needed to be proficient in the fields of engineering and
chemistry.
anatomy
astronomy
mathematics
10
The system of offices and officials that the pharaohs relied on to handle the business of government was called a
bureaucracy
scribes
hieroglyphics
anatomy
11
According to legend, 1st pharaoh & leader who united the Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt was
Seth
Ramses II.
Hatshepsut
Menes.
12
From their work with mummies, Egyptians learned much about ___, or the structure of the human body and its organs
scribes
anatomy
hieroglyphics
architecture
13
The Egyptians developed a calendar with 365 days that was called a
flood calendar.
Sirius calendar.
lunar calendar.
solar calendar.
14
What aspects of its culture did Nubia take from Egypt?
The use of iron, gold, and ivory
Its writing system
Gods and the use of pyramids
A system of rule by queens
15
The geography of ancient Egypt included vast desert areas of burning sands known as
Lower Egypt.
the Black Land.
Upper Egypt.
the Red Land.
16
Because Nubians had less land to farm than Egyptians,
they became accomplished sailors on the Nile.
they were more motivated to trade.
many Nubians moved to Egypt.
they sold their surplus grain to Egypt.
17
Because of the groups of rocky rapids called the Nile cataracts
ships could not travel upstream from Egypt.
Egyptians couldn't trade w/countries on Mediterranean Sea.
silt would not build up at the mouth of the Nile.
Nubians were skillful sailors.
18
What effect did continued trading with Egypt have on Nubian civilization?
Nubians adopted many of the elements of Egyptian culture
Nubians stopped trading with other African countries.
Nubians wanted to leave their country and move to Egypt.
Nubians learned to navigate the Nile River.
19
How were the Egyptians able to predict when the Nile would flood each year?
They watched the horizon for the star Sirius to appear.
A lunar calendar ¬ed the event on the same date each yr.
not able to predict it b/c the flooding varied from yr to yr
Read ancient manuscripts that traced history of the Nile.
20
The most important god of all those worshiped by the Egyptians was the sun god
Osiris
Isis
Horus
Amon-Re.
21
In order to overcome death like Osiris, Egyptians believed that they needed to
pay tribute to the pharaoh in gold and grain.
have their bodies buried in the waters of the Nile.
preserve their bodies for the afterlife.
burn their bodies in the temple.
22
Egyptians were able to share and preserve knowledge thanks to officials called _____________ who knew how to write.
hieroglyphics
nobles
scribes
slaves
23
Which of the following is NOT true of Nubians?
closer contact w/other African peoples than the Egyptians.
Their culture was the same as Egypt’s.
Their idea of kings as gods may have spread to Egypt.
They developed their own writing system.
24
Which ancient Egyptian leader fought against Hittites in the area that was then called Kadesh?
Ramses II
Menes
Osiris
Hatshepsut
25
The Nile delta formed the region known as
Upper Egypt.
the Red Land.
Lower Egypt.
Nubia
