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1
What type of writing were hieroglyphs?
Pictograms
Drawings
Letters
Syllabic
2
In Egypt floodings were very irregular
True
False
3
The reason civilisations appeared near rivers is that in these places they could develop a more productive agriculture
True
False
4
Where did craftsmen work?
Pyramids
Near the Nile
Workshops
Countryside
5
Privileged groups were
Aristocracy
Aristocracy, craftsmen & scribes
Peasants, scribes & aristocracy
Aristocracy, priests & scribes.
6
Egiptians belived in...
In life after death.
In God.
Life after death.
Life after death and wanted to keep the bodies for the new life.
7
Egyptian architecture used
Mud
Stone
Clay
Straw
8
Where did the first civilisations appear?
300 years ago
6000 years ago
1500 years ago
3000 years ago
9
Mesopotamian architecture used
Stone
Straw
Wood
Mud
10
In Egypt, why did writting appear?
To text their friends
To invent stories
To write chronicles of the Pharaoh
To control & keep the data: taxes, trade, etc
11
Slaves were usually war prisoners and had rights
True
False
12
Which 3 characteristics did the river civilisations have?
Strong power, military power and religious power
Strong power, hyerarchical society and artistic development
13
Ra was ....
The king of Gods
God of evil, the desert & storms
The god of the earth
The king of the Gods & the Sun god
14
Egyptians & Mesopotamians were polytheistic
False
True
15
When in front of the pharaoh, people had to kiss the floor
True
False
16
Women were propety of men
False
True
17
Isis was the sister/wife of Osiris. Shown as a woman wearing a vulture head-dress & pair of horns.
True
False
18
In Egypt, where did priests live?
Piramids
Nile
Their houses
Temples
19
Cuneiform writing consisted...
of signs draw in papyrus
of signs draw in paper
of signs draw tablets with a reed.
of signs draw on rocks
20
Horus was...
The son of Set and Bastet
The son of Anubis and Isis
The son of Osiris and Isis
The father of Osiris and Isis
21
In Mesopotamia and Egypt the king was called pharaoh
False
True
22
These are the first great civilisations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, India & Japan
False
True
23
How did Mesopotamians manage their floodings?
They didn't build in the flooded areas
They built bridges
They built towers
They built channels and deposits
24
Mesopotamia developed along large rivers...
River Nile
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
Huang He
Indus River
25
In Egypt they had a different type of writing
True
False
26
Peasants had to give the temple or the king part of the harvest they obtained
False
True
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What did scribes do?
Do religious rites
Cultivate the fields
Keep the written records
Manage the irrigation systems
