Ancient Egypt, The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms

Question 1

What is Khufu's 'nickname'?

Accepted Answer

Cheops

Question 2

A pyramid is has a triangular base with 4 triangular faces meeting at the top to make a top.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Sekment is the goddess of...

Accepted Answer

goddess of war and disease

Question 4

In 2040 BC, King Mentuhotep of the ____ dynasty reunited Egypt. What dynasty was he from?

Accepted Answer

11th

Question 5

Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Menes

Question 6

What is the paper-like material Egyptians created?

Accepted Answer

Papyrus

Question 7

Who is the sun god?

Accepted Answer

Ra, Aten

Question 8

What was the city's capitol name that King Mentuhotep made during the Middle Kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Thebes

Question 9

What are 2 weapons the Hyksos used in battle?

Accepted Answer

Chariots and scrimitars

Question 10

Upper Egypt is __________.

Accepted Answer

South

Question 11

In what year did the nobles take over from the pharaohs? (When the Old Kingdom ended)

Accepted Answer

2200 BC

Question 12

Who did the Egyptians trade with to acquire more gold, ivory, and slaves?

Accepted Answer

Nubia

Question 13

Only pharaohs and elites could be buried as mummies

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What did the Egyptians call the desert surrounding them?

Accepted Answer

Red Land

Question 15

The Egyptians called their territory the ______ _______ because of their fertile soil.

Accepted Answer

Black Land

Question 16

Did you like my quiz on Egypt? Did it help you study?

Accepted Answer

No, Yes, A little bit, I'm too smart for this

Question 17

Artists, artisans, and architects weren't admired even though they had skills.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

What is a 'ka'?

Accepted Answer

A person's soul after death

Question 19

How did Egypt become rich?

Accepted Answer

From conquering land

Question 20

Queen Hatsheput was shunned because she was a lady pharaoh even though she called herself king

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

How long is the Nile River, approximately?

Accepted Answer

4,000 miles

Question 22

When being mummified, they took out the heart.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

In what year did the Hyksos take power over Egypt?

Accepted Answer

1750 BC

Question 24

Did they wrap the mummies in linen?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 25

How can you read hieroglyphics?

Accepted Answer

Up and down, Left and Right

Question 26

Merchents and traders mostly traveled to _____ to trade and sell goods

Accepted Answer

Nibia

Question 27

Originally, how many kingdoms were there?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 28

What was the name of the people who could write and keep records

Accepted Answer

Scribes

Question 29

How long did the Hyksos have power over Egypt?

Accepted Answer

200 years

Question 30

Menes wore a _______ ________ after he unified Upper and Lower Egypt.

Accepted Answer

Double crown

Question 31

Were the Egyptians ever invaded by the Assyrians?

Accepted Answer

Yes, 671 BC

Question 32

King Tut restored all the temples, and made Memphis the capitol again.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

What was the cloth that mummies were mummified in?

Accepted Answer

Linen

Question 34

Who is the god of chaos?

Accepted Answer

Seth

Question 35

How long did the first dynasty last? (Menes)

Accepted Answer

200 years

Question 36

Who was the first pharoah, and created the first dynasty?

Accepted Answer

Menes

Question 37

Upper Egypt wore a red crown, while Lower Egypt wore a white crown.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

Queen Hatshepsut used trading profits for _______ and ________

Accepted Answer

Arts and architecture

Question 39

Who was buried in the Pyramid of Giza?

Accepted Answer

Khufu

Question 40

What years did the New Kingdom last?

Accepted Answer

1600 BC until 1100 BC

Question 41

The Egyptians believed that the pharoah was both king and a god.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Seshet was a goddess, not a god.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

Who reined the longest as a pharaoh/king?

Accepted Answer

Ramses the Great

Question 44

Egypt offered many jobs/diversity in living. (i.e. jobs)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

Women could file divorce papers and own property.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

Scribes had to pay taxes.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 47

Pharaoh ___________ forced the people to stop worshiping gods, and made them worship Aten

Accepted Answer

Amenhotep, Akhetaton

Question 48

The pyramids were designed for the pharaohs to climb to the heavens

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

In what year did Alexander the Great invade Egypt?

Accepted Answer

332 BC

Question 50

What is a mummy?

Accepted Answer

A specially treated body wrapped in cloth

Question 51

What invention does not belong? (What the Egyptians didn't invent)

Accepted Answer

Scrimitars

Ancient Egypt, The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms

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