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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
water clock
B
Levees
C
wheelbarrow
D
calendar
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
The dressed like the pharaoh.
B
They were willing to work to complete the pharaohs pyramid.
C
They sent the pharaoh gifts on his birthday
D
They worshipped the pharaoh as gods.
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
Upper and Lower Egypt
B
A large desert that provided protection
C
Hot winds that blew across the land
D
Rich farmland in the river valley
5) In about 4,000 BCE, which of the following appeared in the Nile River delta?
A
The first communities
B
Nubian Soldiers
C
The first Egyptian artisans
D
Traders from other countries
6) Who did the Egyptian pharaoh have absolute power over?
A
All Egyptians
B
All priests of Egypt
C
All of Africa
D
All slaves of North Africa
7) What role did religion play in Egyptian life?
A
It explained natural evetns.
B
It destroyed the power of the pharaoh
C
IT supported the development of a democratic government.
D
It encouraged Egyptians to make peace with their neighbors
8) How did Egyptians demonstrate their belief in life after death?
A
They preserved the bodies of their dead
B
They did not think the bodies of the dead should be preserved
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 predict the flooding of the Nile River
C
To create a new writing system
D
To create new medicines
10) What term means a worker who is especially skilled in making something?
A
Cataract
B
Delta
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 river made it possible for them to grow enough good and trade with other civilization.
D
The deserts hot sand allowed them to preserve the bodies of the dead.
12) What is a person who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule?
A
Artisan
B
Scribe
C
Pharaoh
D
Regent
13) The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids along the west bank of the Nile River. What were these pyramids built to do?
A
Tombs for pharaohs
B
Signs pointing out how far to the next trading post.
C
Maps about what stars to view.
D
Directions on how to get to the Temple of Osiris
14) What was the purpose of the scribe in the river valley?
A
Judge the laws
B
record info
C
create religious texts
D
develop the economy.
15) Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform provided the basis for the development of
A
subsistence farming
B
painting and sculpture
C
oral tradition
D
Recorded history
16) Egypt had rich deposits of silt, creating an excellent farming and herding environment. How were these deposits created?
A
offering tributes to the gods.
B
Slash and burn agriculture
C
overabundance of fertilizer
D
Annual flood of Nile
17) What is an early form of paper made from reed-like plants?
A
Pharaoh
B
Silt
C
Hieroglyphics
D
Papyrus
18) Why were the pyramids so important to Ancient Egypt?
A
They made it easy to find Cairo
B
They were a proper place to bury their god-king.
C
They used up surplus granite
D
They were a safe place to go during floods.
19) What did scientists study to be able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics?
A
Great Pyramid
B
Nile River
C
Sphinx
D
Rosetta Stone
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
Desert
C
Ziggurat
D
Pyramids
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