Chapter 5-Ancient Egypt Question Preview (ID: 49106)


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A cataract is a _______________.
a) boat
b) type of building
c) waterfall
d) part of a river

A delta is _____________________.
a) the mouth of a river
b) the source of a river
c) a waterfall
d) a type of house

How did the Egyptians know when the Nile was going to flood?
a) they used the stages of the moon
b) white birds, called ibises flew up from the south
c) the Pharoah just kinda knew
d) priests foretold it with chicken bones

A shaduf is used to ____________________.
a) predict the weather
b) lift water from the river
c) sail upriver
d) cook food

________________ was at the top of the Egyptian social pyramid.
a) Merchants
b) Priests
c) Farmers
d) Pharaoh

The Egyptian system of writing is called __________.
a) papyrus
b) heiroglyphics
c) afterlife
d) canopic jars

The Egyptians would ________________ their dead to prepare them for the afterlife.
a) embalm
b) bury
c) cremate
d) worship

The egyptians developed a kind of paper called ________________.
a) papyrus
b) hieroglyphics
c) mummies
d) anubis

The Egyptians invented ______________ to help locate their land after floods.
a) surgery
b) geometry
c) astronomy
d) afterlife

The jackal-headed god named ______________ weighed your heart after you die.
a) Anubis
b) Osiris
c) Re
d) Isis

The Egyptians believed that the afterlife was ___________.
a) a bummer
b) happy
c) miserable
d) not real

A line of rulers from the same family is called a _____________.
a) dynasty
b) succession
c) ankh
d) inherit

The word Pharaoh means ______________.
a) great house
b) god king
c) pyramid builder
d) the boss

______________ built the Great Pyramid in Giza.
a) Khufu
b) Djoser
c) Osiris
d) Hatshepsut

_____________ was the first woman to rule Egypt
a) Cleopatra
b) Hatshepsut
c) Djoser
d) Re

An obelisk is a ________________.
a) 4 sided structure with a pyramid top
b) small pyramid
c) burial chamber
d) organ jar

Akhenaton wanted _______________-, the sun god, to be the most important god.
a) Aten
b) Re
c) Osiris
d) Mr. Jones

After Tutankhamen died, ______________ the Great took over as Pharaoh.
a) Ramses II
b) Hatshepsut
c) Cleopatra
d) Aten

Why did Ramses II create such a huge temple honoring himself?
a) He wanted to appear god-like
b) He wanted to become immortal
c) He was jealous of other Pharaoh's
d) He did it by accident

Why was the government so stable under Ramses II?
a) He ruled for such a long time (60 years)
b) He was a great military leader
c) He built a huge temple for himself
d) He had so many allies in other empires

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