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Egypt is surrounded by ___ continents.
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What have scientistis learned from studying mummies?
What kinds of foods they ate
What kinds of diseases the ancient Egyptians had
How intellegent Egyptians were
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Egyptians did not rely on _____ for the goods they needed to survive.
Cars
Buckets
Trade
Trees
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What is a Senet?
A pharoah
A type of writing
A board game
A type of food
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Egyptians believed:
The eyes were the most important organ
The liver was the most important organ
The brain was the most important organ
The heart was the most important organ
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What event made it possible for the ancient Egyptians to grow crops?
The plow
The Nile flooded its banks yearly
A heavy yearly rainfall
Fertile soil
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Why did the Egyptians travel on the Mediterranean Sea?
To go swimming
To go fishing
To trade with other cultures
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What is the name of the river which flows through the desert in North Africa?
Tigris
Euphrates
Nile
Amazon
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Why is the Rosetta Stone so important?
It was pretty
Its the oldest artifact ever discovered
It made ii possible to decipher hieroglyphics
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Egyptians:
Were lazy
Lived boring lives
No longer exist
Had many rulers
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What is stored in canopic jars?
Gold
Internal organs
Amulets
Natron
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Egyptians are well known for?
Gold
Agriculture
Pyramids
Friendships
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How did the Egyptians water their farms?
They rotated farming with nomdic herding
They used sprinklers
They built around the mountains
They used irrigation systems
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Which two activities were most important to the growth of Egypt?
Mining and tool making
Farming and trade
Fishing and sewing
Dancing and singing
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How did Egyptians measure items?
They used tape measures
They used their feet
They measured by using their arm from elbow to fingertip
The used sticks
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What is a cataract?
A waterfall
A river
Another name for the Nile River
Mountain
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What is the site of the largest pyramid ever built?
Cairo
Memphis
Upper Egypt
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People believed pharaohs were?
Awful
Statues
Children of the Gods
Trees
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What was Egyptian's form of writing called?
Cursive
Hieroglyphics
Picture Writing
Bubble Letters
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Who was at the top pf the social pyramid?
Priests
Scribes
Pharaoh
Gods
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What is a landform usually triangular at the mouth of a river?
A delta
Ocean
A mountain
A lake
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Egypt's first pharaoh:
United upper and lower Egypt
Moved away
Built a palace on the Nile
Started a war
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Why did the ancient Egyptian mummify their dead?
For health reasons
They worshipped their relatives
It was the law
They believed you needed your body for the afterlife
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Is a method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops.
Rain
Irrigation
Sprinklers
Rivers
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In Ancient Egypt people wrote on?
Tablets
Papyrus
Sand
Trees
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Scribes were:
Civilization
Family
Writers
Justice system
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Who made jewlery and crafts?
Craftsmen
Servants
Soldiers
Priests
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What is the definition of a dynasty?
A country
A succession of rulers from the same family
Friendly people
Ducks
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What is small particles of sediment and soil that are easily carried in water, often in rivers?
mud
soil
sand
silt
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Egyptians used:
Used the barter system
Money to purchase goods
Items were purchased with gold
Gave items away
