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Fertile Crescent: Ancient Egypt Review TRM
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What is it called when a series of rulers come from a single blood line (family)?
Dynasty
Culture
Pharaohs
2
What river runs along Egypt?
Nile River
Mississippi River
Indus River
Red Sea
3
What was the economy of Egypt based on?
Farming to grow a surplus of food in order to trade it for other goods
Sailing up and down the Nile River to capture hippos to sell them as pets
Worshipping the gods in order to have a good afterlife
Trade because like the Phoenicians, they did not have fertile land to farm
4
Which social group made up 80% of the population in Egypt?
Artisans and Peasants
Merchants and Peasants
Soldiers and Peasants
Farmers and Peasants
5
Why was Egypt so successful?
They were great rulers
They had access to water
They had a big population
6
Women were treated like....
queens
equals
slaves
7
What was the purpose of pyramids?
To hide their riches
For show
They were tombs for the rich
To have races to the top
8
Woman in Egypt had no rights whatsoever except that they could own a business
False
True
9
Ancient Egypt's writing system was called what?
Caveman paintings
Spanish
Hieroglyphics
English
10
An advisor to the king. Was also in charge of other government officials
Vizier
Priest
Pharaoh
11
The capital city that was founded by Narmer (Menes)
Summit
Memphis
Luxor
Cairo
12
A process of embalming and drying corpses.
Cremation
Mummification
Dehydrating
13
A primary source that describes the first time Upper Egypt takes over Lower Egypt
Scorpion Macehead
The Scorpions
Narmer Palette
Scorpion Meathead
14
Their Egyptian alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet
True
False
15
Who built the pyramids and other government projects?
Skilled workers such as carpenters and bakers during the flood season
Farmers and slaves during the flood season
The family of the Pharaoh during the harvest season
Priests and soldiers when society was at peace
16
What are you looking at?
Pharaoh
Temple
The Great Sphinx
17
Why is King Tut's tomb so famous?
Tomb robbers never were able to locate the tomb and steal everything
I have never heard of King Tut
Because King Tut was the oldest Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt
Tomb robbers stole everything but later donated it to the Egyptian museum
18
The primary source that describes the second time Upper Egypt takes over Lower Egypt
Book of the Dead
Scorpion Macehead
Narmer Palette
19
Most people in this social group were wealthy...
Priests
Farmers
Artisans
Peasants
20
Egyptians used _____ for columns, and temples.
stone
cement
sand
clay
21
A tall reed that grows in the Nile Delta is called what? It was also used to build boats and make paper.
Bamboo
Papyrus
Parchment
22
Why did social groups start to form in Ancient Egypt?
During the thousands of years of living along the Nile, they just formed
It was thought that an orderly society would keep the kingdom strong
The people needed to create social groups, and pick their jobs
23
The writing system hieroglyphics is the same as cuneiform and was invented in Mesopotamia.
False
True
24
What continent is Egypt located in?
Asia
Europe
Australia
Africa
25
Why as important to preserve the body after death?
So that the living family can recognize the body one year later
So the body would smell like cheese and skunk on a hot summer day
So that people thousands of years later could study Ancient Egyptians
So the Ka can recognize the body while in Duat
26
What type of religion did Ancient Egyptians practice?
Buddhism
Christianity
Daoism
Polytheism
27
What social class are government officials under?
Upper
Middle
Lower
28
What social class level were peasants a part of?
Middle Class
Upper Class
Lower Class
29
The economy of Egypt was based on trade.
True
False
30
The Egyptians created a calendar that had 365 days in a year.
True
False
31
Many Egyptians believed that after you died you went....
to heaven
to hell
to bed
to the afterlife
32
In Egypt, if you were born into a social class that you disliked, you would be able to work hard and move up in class
True
False
33
The reason there are many smaller figures in this piece of art is because
Giants lived in Ancient Egypt
Smaller figures in Egyptian art represented people with less power
That is a representation of the group that controlled power in Egypt
