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Lesson 2: Life in Ancient Egypt
Lesson 2: Life in Ancient Egypt
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Artisans were in the ...
upper class
lower class
middle class
ruling class
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A pharaoh
is an ancient Egyptian leader
only rules politically
only rules religion
is a Mesopotamian leader
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Who is in the upper class?
unskilled workers
artisans
priests
farmers
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What book did the Egyptians study to help them reach life after death?
Book of the Dead
Book of the Mummies
Book of Gangster Doria
Book of the Dragon
5
What did the boys learn?
they learned the job their father did from their father
they learned how to hunt
they learned how to take care of the house
they learned how to count money
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What did the lower class live in?
smaller homes that were spacious
large three story homes in cities
one-room huts
mansions
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What shape is a pyramid?
circle
rectangle
triangle
semi-circle
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What did the Egyptians learn from embalming?
about the organs, and how the body worked
nothing
how to eat hearts
how the brain works
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What is embalming?
a medical procedure
The process of preserving people who are alive
Using wax to create figures
the process of preserving dead bodies
10
A bureocrat is a government official
False
True
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Why was it so important to embalm the body AND put the pharaoh's body in a pyramid?
So people could find him later
They didn't embalm anyone
To study how the body decayed
The Egyptians believed the pharaohs needed their bodies for the after life
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Who was in the lower class?
shopkeepers
merchants
farmers
army commanders
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When was the Great Pyramid built?
100 AD
50 AD
2560 BC
2150 BC
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When was the old kingdom?
about 2600 - 2200 BC
5000 BC
about 3500 - 2100 BC
100 AD
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Bureaucrats collected taxes.
True
False
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What are artisans?
They farm.
They make cloth, jewlery, pottery, and metal goods.
They herd cattle.
They collect taxes.
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Egyptians did NOT write down their finding in medical books.
True
False
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Upper class women could perform religious ceremonies and were in charge of temples.
True
False
19
Children ...
were not valued
could make decisions on which career they would like
few children went to school
went to school
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The pharaoh had some control and his orders weren't always obeyed.
False
True
21
Women were head of the family.
True
False
22
Women could file for divorce.
False
True
23
The Great Pyramid does NOT still stand today.
False
True
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The Great Pyramid was in ...
Khufu
Iraq
Syria
Giza
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What is a government in which the same person is the political and religious leader called?
dictatorship
monarchy
theocracy
democracy
