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You can use a pyramid to represent this system of ranking social status in ancient Egypt
Hierarchy
Ma'at
Power
Credibility
2
These professional writers were important in both Egypt, Nubia, and Mesopotamia
Scribes
Soldiers
Government Officials
Priests
3
The earliest Egyptian kings and queens were not called Pharaohs
False
True
4
Ancient Egyptians had no contact with Mesopotamians
True
False
5
Which individual is the highest on the Egyptian social hierarchy?
Farmers
Scribes
Government Officials
Merchants
6
Ancient Egyptians and Nubians built these structures as tombs for important people
Hippodromes
Pyramids
Temples
Ziggurats
7
What monumental sculpture guards the pyramids at Giza?
The Great Sphinx
The Statue of Liberty
The Colossus of Rhodes
8
Mr. Kerr can read and write in hieroglyphics
False
True
9
This yearly natural process provided Egyptian farmers with soil to plant
Blizzards
Monsoon
Flooding
10
Upper Egypt is to the north of Lower Egypt
True
False
11
The ancient Mesopotamians used hieroglyphics as a writing system
False
True
12
These natural formations served as a barrier to travel in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Cataracts
Dams
Mountains
Canyons
13
This region of Egypt was home to a rich agricultural land
Kush
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
Nubia
14
Ancient stories that help explain the world:
Epics
Myths
Poems
Aphorisms
15
Who was Hatshepsut's nephew?
Rameses
Akhenaten
Thutmose III
16
The substance deposited on the banks of the Nile during yearly inundations
Clay
Papyrus
Silt
Wheat
17
Events in ancient Egyptian history occurred during which era?
A.D.
C.E.
B.C.E.
18
The idea of rightful balance, order, harmony, justice and truth in Egyptian religion
Virtue
The field of reeds
Ma'at
Isis
19
King Narmer unified Upper and Lower Egypt around
3150 B.C.E.
4000 B.C.E.
1250 B.C.E.
3150 C.E.
20
The families that ruled ancient Egypt are called:
Empires
Dynasties
Kingdoms
Monarchies
21
What was the importance of the Rosetta Stone?
It helped Napoleon conquer Europe
It allowed Egypt to tax the Mesopotamians
It helped Egyptologists translate hieroglyphics
It was written in Latin and Hieroglyphics
22
The Nile River flows into what body of water
The Persian Gulf
The Red Sea
The Mediterranean Sea
The Black Sea
23
Which god was associated with the ruling Pharaoh?
Isis
Horus
Anubis
Osiris
24
Circa 30 B.C.E. means
Exactly thirty years before common era
Around thirty years before common era
Around 300 years before common era
Around the year thirty common era
25
Napoleon's soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone in Egypt
True
False
26
Pharaohs were usually women in ancient Egypt
False
True
27
What plant did ancient Egyptians use to make paper?
Papyrus
White Pine
Maize
Wheat
28
In a polytheistic religion, people worship many gods
False
True
29
Egyptians used these devices to divert water from the Nile River
Levees
Shadufs
Steam pumps
30
Ancient Nubians conquered upper and lower Egypt
False
True
31
Which King united Egypt?
Rameses
Narmer
Hatshepsut
Cleopatra
32
What is another name for Ancient Nubia?
Kush
Aksum
Babylon
Assyria