Ancient Egypt quiz 1

Why did the Egyptians invent the calendar?

• to keep track of their farm animals

• to keep track of when the gods would come to Earth

• to help them with the building of canals

• to help them with their farming

Who united Upper and Lower Egypt?

• Menes
• Tut
• Gilgamesh
• Hammurabi

Egyptian writing is called

• cuneiform
• Phoenician alphabet 
• hieroglyphics

In order to use your body in the afterlife it first has to be ________

• mummified
• embalmed
• burned
• frozen

4..  What was a pyramid used for?

• palace for the pharoah
• burial place for the dead
• a place to hides one's gold
• a school

Which of the following is NOT a way our calendar and the Ancient Egyptian is the same?

• has 365 days

• has season

• has 12 months

• has 30 days in each month

6. The first type of burial place ancient Egyptians was called a

• Mastabah

• pyramid

• Step pyramid

• Ziggurat

Ancient Egyptian paper is called

• papyrus
• scrolls
• cataracts
• desertification

Which of the following is the best reason for the Ancient Egyptians move to the Nile RIver valley?

• the grassy plains had changed to a desert.

• It was to hard to find water.

• There was fertile soil to grow crops in the Nile river valley.

• The weather was better by the Nile River.

The longest river in the world is the 

• Mississippi
• Nile
• Tigris
• Euphrates