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__________ refers to the thin strip of fertile soil located along the Nile River.
a) red land
b) black land
c) Greenland
d)

Where do most people live in Egypt?
a) along the Flint River
b) along the Nile River
c) in the fertile crescent
d)

What's the major river that runs through Egypt?
a) Mesopotamia
b) nile
c) the Mississippi
d)

Most of Egypt was and is still covered by _______________.
a) grass
b) weeds
c) desert
d)

A series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group.
a) afterlife
b) absolute power
c) dynasty
d)

The area where a river meets a lake or sea, and that causes the water to slow down and deposit sediment, which causes islands to form over time.
a) delta
b) desert
c) region
d)

Belief in another life after death.
a) silt
b) afterlife
c) regent
d)

A region that receives very little rainfall, and has very few plants or animals as a result.
a) desert
b) regent
c) delta
d)

Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule.
a) peasant
b) pharaoh
c) regent
d)

Pictures and other written symbols that stand for ideas, things, or sounds.
a) Hieroglyphs
b) peasant
c) dynasty
d)

A social class made up of farmers, construction workers and other unskilled laborers. The lowest social class except for slaves.
a) dynasty
b) Peasant
c) Pharaoh
d)

Title of the kings of ancient Egypt.
a) Pharaoh
b) dynasty
c) silt
d)

Complete control over someone or something.
a) delta
b) silt
c) Absolute Power
d)

Fine soil that is rich, fertile, and can be found in river bottoms.
a) delta
b) desert
c) silt
d)

_______________ is the process by which Egyptians preserved a dead body in lifelike conditions.
a) tomb
b) corpse
c) mummification
d)

What did we learn from the Rosetta Stone?
a) about mummification
b) how to read hieroglyphic writing
c) about King Tut
d)

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