Ancient Egypt (Unit 2)

Question 1

In which period did the pharaohs introduce many different aspects of literature, art, and architecture to the empire?

Accepted Answer

The Middle Kingdom (“The Period of Reunification”)

Question 2

What are cataracts?

Accepted Answer

Shallow lengths of a river where stones jut out from the riverbed.

Question 3

Egyptians married within their own social class.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

How did the ancient Egyptians predict floods?

Accepted Answer

A Calendar System

Question 5

What is mummification?

Accepted Answer

The preservation of a physical body.

Question 6

What is a polytheistic civilization?

Accepted Answer

Civilization that worships many gods.

Question 7

There are 328 known Egyptian pyramids.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

What were the 3 periods of the Ancient Egyptian empire?

Accepted Answer

Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom

Question 9

Where did the people of Egypt primarily settle?

Accepted Answer

Near the Mediterranean Sea and the Nile River.

Question 10

In which period did the pharaohs set up a strong central government by controlling food supply?

Accepted Answer

The Old Kingdom (“The Age of Pyramids”)

Question 11

How many social classes were in the Egyptian’s social pyramid?

Accepted Answer

6

Question 12

Which government did the Ancient Egyptians live in?

Accepted Answer

Theocracy

Question 13

Egypt’s social hierarchy was based off of what principal?

Accepted Answer

Ma’at

Question 14

Pharaohs controlled all aspects of government and religious practices.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Which period of the Egyptian empire were pyramids constructed?

Accepted Answer

The Old Kingdom

Question 16

What major land trade routes did the ancient Egyptians use?

Accepted Answer

The Wadi Hammamat and Darb el-Arbain Trade Routes

Question 17

In which period were giant monuments constructed, trade increased, and the empire expanded immensely?

Accepted Answer

The New Kingdom (“The Golden Age”)

Question 18

How were pyramids used?

Accepted Answer

Used to store the body and processions needed in the afterlife.

Question 19

Most of Ancient Egypt’s population lived all over the country.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Every summer, the Nile River flooded the Nile River valley.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

What is an environmental factor?

Accepted Answer

Physical attributes that greatly affect where populations settle.

Question 22

Gold, papyrus, linen, grain, and artifacts (looted from pharaohs’ tombs) are all common exports of Egypt.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Who built the pyramids?

Accepted Answer

A combination of slaves and workers.

Question 24

Which social class had the largest population?

Accepted Answer

Peasants

Question 25

What are the 3 environmental factors?

Accepted Answer

Topography, Vegetation, and Water

Question 26

Which body of water was essential to Egyptian trade?

Accepted Answer

The Mediterranean Sea

Ancient Egypt (Unit 2)

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