Egypt Review

The Nile River is the longest river in the world.

Upper and Lower Egypt were united into a single kingdom around 3100 B.C. by

The first woman Pharaoh was ________________

led the Hebrews (Israelites) out of slavery from Egypt

In the first century B.C., under the pharaoh ______, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire.

Women in Ancient Egypt were never allowed to operate businesses.

boy-pharaoh who restored worship of the old gods in the New Kingdom

Which of the following was not an advancement made by the Egyptians?

a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family

complex system of writing meaning “sacred writings” that is made up of pictures and forms

During the New Kingdom, Egypt created an empire that was the most powerful state in Southwest Asia.

The process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting is called ____.

During the ________, the pyramids were built.

pharaoh who introduced the worship of a single god, Aton, god of the sun disk

______ tried to restore Egypt to former glory; built many grand temples, & statues of himself, & a new capital city

In Egyptian Religion--the evil brother of Osiris

They invented embalming

Mummification took _______ days to complete.

Ancient Egypt's sun god

________ invasions ended the Middle Kingdom, but the Egyptians learned how to make bronze weapons and kicked them out.

Egyptians called the spiritual part of man ______, and they believed it could be reunited with the body after death.

Who was the Egyptian goddess of women?

The largest number of people in Egypt worked as metal workers.

A simpler version of Egyptian writing called ______________ was used for business and in daily life.

Egypt is located on the continent of _________.

Egyptian history is divided into three major periods, known as the

Egyptian monarch’s title, originally meaning “great house”

True/False: Ramses was definitely the Pharaoh of Egypt when Moses led the Jews out of slavery.

Pharaoh had unlimited power, but he or she had a _________________, a man who was second in command, to assist him or he

Egyptians were able to calculate area and volume and used geometry to build the pyramids.

The development of Egyptian civilization was influenced most closely by

In Ancient Egypt, parents arranged marriages for their children.

In theory, Egyptian ____ owned all the land and granted parts of it to their subjects.

Osiris is an important figure in Egyptian religion who symbolizes

Ancient Egypt’s most important cities developed in the Nile Delta, AKA Lower Egypt.