Ancient Egypt

The most important amulet in Ancient Egypt

• Pharoah
• Scarab

What is Papyrus?

• material that the Egyptians wrote on 
• the preservation of a dead body 
• a device used for raising water 
• a new cell phone

What was a shaduf used for?

• to help preserve mummies
• to charge their cell phones
• material that the Egyptians wrote on 
• to raise water for irrigation of the land

Materials used to create pyramids

• mudbricks
• sunbaked bricks & limestone
• tar
• concrete

How were the pyramids made?

• stacking mastabas
• with a crane
• building up using steps along the outside
• they appeared out of thin air

Who ruled Egyptian kingdoms?

• Jesus
• Pharaohs
• Kings
• Priests

The floods were dependable and not feared for the Egyptians. (True or False)

• True
• False

The Egyptian writing system was called...

• papyrus
• cuneiform
• sanskrit
• hieroglyphics

Which of the following does NOT describe the government of Ancient Egypt?

• City-states led by kings
• Villages led by chiefs
• Kingdoms rules by pharaos
• Villages that later united to form kingdoms

The Egyptians developed the first form of paper called....

• clay tablets
• papyrus
• hieroglyphics
• cuneiform