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Test Description: Ancient Egypt
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1) What innovation helped Ancient Egypt organize their activities around the Nile River's cycle and to devise ways to control it for their own use?
A
wheelbarrow
B
Levees
C
calendar
D
water clock
2) What evidence can you find from the information you studied about Egypt that would suggest they believed the pharaoh's afterlife was linked to his/her own?
A
They worshipped the pharaoh as gods.
B
The dressed like the pharaoh.
C
They were willing to work to complete the pharaohs pyramid.
D
They sent the pharaoh gifts on his birthday
3) Which of the following contributed most in creating economic surpluses in Egyptian and other civilizations?
A
factory system
B
a system of locks along the river
C
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone
D
Irrigation and domestication
4) The Nile River affected Ancient Egypt by creating what?
A
Rich farmland in the river valley
B
A large desert that provided protection
C
Hot winds that blew across the land
D
Upper and Lower Egypt
5) In about 4,000 BCE, which of the following appeared in the Nile River delta?
A
The first communities
B
The first Egyptian artisans
C
Traders from other countries
D
Nubian Soldiers
6) Who did the Egyptian pharaoh have absolute power over?
A
All Egyptians
B
All slaves of North Africa
C
All priests of Egypt
D
All of Africa
7) What role did religion play in Egyptian life?
A
IT supported the development of a democratic government.
B
It destroyed the power of the pharaoh
C
It explained natural evetns.
D
It encouraged Egyptians to make peace with their neighbors
8) How did Egyptians demonstrate their belief in life after death?
A
They did not think the bodies of the dead should be preserved
B
They preserved the bodies of their dead
C
They became famous warriors
D
They believed in only one god.
9) Why did Ancient Egypt astronomers study the stars?
A
To appoint the next pharaoh
B
To create new medicines
C
To predict the flooding of the Nile River
D
To create a new writing system
10) What term means a worker who is especially skilled in making something?
A
Delta
B
Cataract
C
Artisan
D
Silt
11) How did the physical geography of Ancient Egypt shape the development of its civilization?
A
The river game them plenty of water for drinking, swimming, so tourists came to visit froth other parts of the world.
B
People liked building near the river because of the view.
C
The deserts hot sand allowed them to preserve the bodies of the dead.
D
The river made it possible for them to grow enough good and trade with other civilization.
12) What is a person who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule?
A
Regent
B
Scribe
C
Artisan
D
Pharaoh
13) The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids along the west bank of the Nile River. What were these pyramids built to do?
A
Signs pointing out how far to the next trading post.
B
Maps about what stars to view.
C
Directions on how to get to the Temple of Osiris
D
Tombs for pharaohs
14) What was the purpose of the scribe in the river valley?
A
develop the economy.
B
record info
C
Judge the laws
D
create religious texts
15) Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform provided the basis for the development of
A
Recorded history
B
painting and sculpture
C
subsistence farming
D
oral tradition
16) Egypt had rich deposits of silt, creating an excellent farming and herding environment. How were these deposits created?
A
overabundance of fertilizer
B
Slash and burn agriculture
C
offering tributes to the gods.
D
Annual flood of Nile
17) What is an early form of paper made from reed-like plants?
A
Papyrus
B
Silt
C
Pharaoh
D
Hieroglyphics
18) Why were the pyramids so important to Ancient Egypt?
A
They used up surplus granite
B
They were a proper place to bury their god-king.
C
They were a safe place to go during floods.
D
They made it easy to find Cairo
19) What did scientists study to be able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics?
A
Sphinx
B
Rosetta Stone
C
Nile River
D
Great Pyramid
20) Here, on the plateau of Giza, 2,300,000 blocks of stone were used to build an eternal tomb for a divine king. What is being described in this sentence?
A
Cataract
B
Pyramids
C
Desert
D
Ziggurat
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