Egypt

The Nile River flows through two important regions in Egypt called

• Mesopotamia
• Upper and Lower Egypt
• Eastern and Western Egypt
• Nubia and Cairo

What is a dynasty?

• a collection of queens
• a collection of kingdoms
• series of rulers from different families
• series of rulers from the same family

Describe the burial practices of Egyptians?

• They used a funeral pyre for the dead.
• They carried the dead to a nearby country.
• They preserved bodies as mummies.
• They were buried in the river.

Pyramids are 

• warehouses to store food surplus
• temples where people are allowed to come and pray
• tombs with 2 rectangle-shaped sides
• tombs with 4 triangle-shaped sides that meet in a point at the top

The worship of many gods.

• monotheism
• irrigation
• polytheism
• epic

Who would write and record information?

• slaves
• scribes
• farmers
• craftspeople

Egyptian writing system

• papyrus
• alaphabet
• cuneiform
• heiroglyphics

Where is the most fertile soil in Egypt?

• Nile Delta
• desert
• far south
• cataracts

Who is at the top of the Egyptian social hierarchy?

• slaves
• pharaoh
• scribe
• merchant

The longest River in Africa; where Egyptian started

• Nile River

• Amazon River

• Yangtze River

• Yellow River