Ancient Egypt Test Review

Who is given credit for breaking the code of the Rosetta Stone?  

What is the oval shape that encloses the hieroglyphs of a person’s name?  

The overflow of the Nile River caused the land to be ____________.

Name the first successful female pharaoh

Most of the land in Egypt is a ____________.

What are 5 ways the Egyptians used and depended on the Nile River for?

Why did the Egyptians mummify their dead?

Who is the supreme ruler in Egypt and at the top of the social pyramid?

Name the triangle shaped land that is made of silt, sand, and stones at the mouth of a river.

What is the name of the sun god?  

What was the paper called that the ancient Egyptians wrote on?

Name the case that a mummy’s coffin is laid in.

What was Egypt’s main crop?

What are 3 uses the Egyptians had for the papyrus plant?

Southern Egypt is called______________.  

Who discovered the tomb of King Tut?  

What system did the Egyptians create to allow them to grow crops in the desert land?  

Egypt’s economy was based on ________________.

Northern Egypt is called______________.  

Who found the body parts of her husband and brought him back to life creating the first mummy?

Which king received credit for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt?  

Another name for a ba is a ______________.

What is the system of writing that the Egyptian used?

Bits of black soil, sand, and clay deposited by the flooding Nile River.

Who were the people whose job it was to write hieroglyphic words?  

Ancient Egyptians thought their land looked like a _________.

A privilege Egyptian women had that was rare was_______ .

Name the place where King Tut’s tomb was discovered.

during the inundation Egyptians______.

What is the name of the region in Africa where the ancient Egyptian civilization grew?

Which pharaoh had the Great Pyramid at Giza built for his tomb?

Which god was killed by his evil brother?

Another name for a ka is a ______________.

What languages are on the Rosetta stone?

Egyptian people believed their pharaoh was both their ___________ and ___________.