Ancient Egypt

What process preserved the bodies of pharoahs for thousands of years?

• hieroglyphics
• papyrus
• mummification
• buriel

The river made the land...

• Fertile
• Dry
• Red
• Dusty

What is the name of the Egyptian ruler?

• The Taoiseach

• The Pharaoh

• The President

• The Emperor

What was the name for people who could write in ancient Egypt?

• authors
• writers
• typists
• scribes

What is the name for the Egyptian writing?

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

• Cyrillic

• The alphabet

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 helped us best understand which of the following?

• Canopic Jars

• Pyramid Theories

• The Book of the Dead

• Hieroglyphics

On which continent can ancient Egypt be found?

• Asia
• Africa
• South America
• Eurpoe

Why was mummification so important to the ancient Egyptians?

• Everyone needs a mommy.

• The preserved appearance of the body allowed it to be recognized by the person's spirit in the afterlife.

• So you wouldn't be cold in the afterlife.

• So you could come back and haunt your family.

Skillful farming led to having a _______. This freed people to work as artisans.

• famine

• irrigation

• surplus

• shadoof

Egyptians developed ______ to survey the land and build pyramids

• irrigation
• geometry
• shadoof
• embalming