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Remember chapter 9? Helpful hint: that's where our Q2 Assessment mostly takes place...
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Why did Egyptian kings have their possessions buried with them?
So they could have them in the afterlife.
So their family could have them if they ran out of money.
They did not keep their possessions after death.
2
A series of rulers in the same family...
genetics
dynasty
hereditary
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True or False: Mesopotamians invented the wheel.
True
False
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A coffin...
Sarcophagus
Pyramid
Tomb
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In Mesopotamia, cities were independent with their own king and government. We call them...
Providences
City-States
Ziggurats
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This scientist discovered King Tut's Tomb:
Dr. Robert Mund
Dr. Indiana Jones
Dr. Howard Carter
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Who created the first written laws?
Nebuchadnezzar
Otzi
Hammurabi
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Why are mummies a big deal?
They aren't a big deal.
It shows Egyptians knew how to preserve the dead well.
It shows the Egyptians had a weird obsession with the dead.
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How did King Tut die?
Nobody actually knows.
Murder by Hormheb.
Murder by Aye.
Killed in a chariot crash.
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Why was the discovery of Tut's tomb so important?
They found his mummy, but the tomb had been robbed of riches
Not important, hundreds of mummies have already been found.
They found him mummy and all of his riches, 100% preserved.
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A burial place...
Temple
Tomb
Ziggurat
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Where did Egyptians believe pharaohs would go once they died?
Their spirit would live in the tomb.
To the afterlife with the Gods, their possessions came too.
No where- the soul also died after death.
13
During the old kingdom, kings would be buried in...
Ziggurats
Pyramids
Temples
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during the New Kingdom, kings began to be called...
Gods
Emperors
Pharaohs
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What is another name for Mesopotamia?
Fertile Cresent
Cuneiform
Silt
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Mummies were physically placed in...
Tombs
Sarcophagi
Temples
17
This famous female pharaoh helped expand trade for Egypt and portrayed herself as a man...
Nefertiti
Hatsheput
Cleopatra
18
Sumerians worshiped in...
Mosques
Ziggurats
Pyramids
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Why would a civilization settle near a river? Like the Tigris or Nile?
Are you crazy?? People didn't settle near rivers...
Fertile soil for crops, irrigation, drinking & trade.
The rivers were pretty, which was appealing.
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Earliest form of writing...
cuneiform
hieroglyphics
Latin
21
What could you find in a sarcophagus?
A mummy
Nothing
gold and other possessions
22
Ancient Egyptians invented...
The wheel
Writing
Papyrus
23
Written language of the Egyptians...
latin
hieroglyphics
cuneiform
24
Pyramids were built to...
help transport kings to the afterlife.
show off Egypt's wealth and power.
make sure the king's family had a place to grieve.
25
Mesopotamia sits between which two rivers?
Euphrates & Indus
Tigris & Indus
Tigris & Euphrates
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Another words for taming animals...
Agility
Training
Domestication
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One of the first major civilizations in Mesopotamia was...
Assyria
Babylonia
Sumer
