Ancient Egypt

Why were tombs filled with art, jewelry, and other treasures?

• Egyptians believed the dead enjoyed such materials in the afterlife

• The tombs were the private storage rooms of the pharaoh

• the tombs served as museums

• Egyptians believed tombs to be the safest places in the kingdom

According to tradition, Upper and Lower Egypt were unified by

• Menes

• Hatshepsut

• Ramses the Great

• Thoth

During the New Kingdom

• the first dynasty came into being

• Egypt reached the height of its power and glory

• Egypt was ruled by invaders from various lands

• the Upper and Lower kingdoms were united

the 500 year period from 2700 to 2200 BC is known as

• the Old Kingdom

• Upper Egypt

• the New Kingdom

• the Middle Kingdom

Egypt's middle class included

• farmers

• priests and government officials

• nobles

• scribes and some craftspeople

What type of landscape exists on both sides of the Nile River Valley?

• humid tropical

• desert

• tropical savanna

• steppe

Why did the Egyptians build their pyramids to be grand and spectacular?

• because they reflected the priests' importance

• because they reflected a pharaoh's importance

• because they reflected the farmers' importance

• because they reflected the sun god's importance

in 1922, archaeologists found the undisturbed tomb of King

• Horus

• Menes

• Tutankhamen

• Ramses

What factor contributed most to the growth of trade in the New Kingdom?

• Egypt's creation of an army

• Egypt's conquest of distant lands

• Egypt's defeat of the Sinai Peninsula

• Egypt's creation of the pyramids

Who would the people of Egypt blame if crops did not grow or if disease struck?

• the dynasty that was in power

• the mummies whose ka was disturbed

• the farmers whose small villages were unclean

• the pharaoh who was both ruler and god