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What enabled historians to decipher Hieroglyphics?
Jean Francois Champollion
sun dial
the Rosetta Stone
the Great Pyramid
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What is BC referring to?
Mediterranean Sea
Nile River
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
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What is AB referring to?
Great Pyramid
Western Desert
Sinai Peninsula
Mesopotamia
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What is considered the "Lifeblood" of Egypt?
the Nile
the deserts
the Mediterranean
the pyramids
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Woman ruler who increased Egypt's wealth through trade and built great temples
Akhenaton (Amonhotep)
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Ramses II
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What is E referring to?
Ur
Thebes
Memphis
Babylon
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What is C referring to?
Red Sea
delta
Mediterranean
Thebes
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What is B referring to?
Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt
Memphis
Sahara
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Pharaoh who worshipped the god Aton, husband of Nefertiti and father to Tut
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Akhenaton (Amonhotep)
Piankhi
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The process of mummification was connected to the Egyptian belief in
magic
afterlife
sun
spirits
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stepson of Hatshepsut; expanded the empire to include Syria, Palestine, & Nubia
Ramses II
Akhenaton (Amonhotep)
Thutmose III
Piankhi
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Known as a great builder and the greatest of all Egyptian pharaohs.
Hatshepsut
Piankhi
Thutmose III
Ramses II
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The main purpose of the pyramids of Egypt was to function as
temples
palaces
grain storage
tombs
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The cataracts along the Nile are most similar to
whirlpools
waterfalls
dams
streams
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What is CD referring to?
Nile River
Nile Delta
Mediterranean Sea
Fertile Crescent
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Papyrus was used as a surface for the Egyptian writing system called
hieroglyphics
alphabet
inscribing
cuneiform
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What is A referring to?
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
Delta
Nile
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Ancient Egypt was protected by natural barriers formed by
mountains
deserts
delta
the Mediterranean
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Greatest Nubian King
Thutmose III
Hatshepsut
Piankhi
Ramses II
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The legendary figure Narmer is famous for being
the first ruler of a united Egypt
sun god of Ancient Egypt
a boy king
in the Epic of Gilgamesh
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What is D referring to?
Thebes
Memphis
Giza
Assyria
