Ch 5 Lesson 2 (Life in Ancient Egypt)

A government in which the same person is both the political leader and the religious leader is called a _______________

• bureaucrats

• pharaoh

• theocracy

The pharaoh appointed _______, or government officials, to carry out his orders.

• bureaucrats

• tributes

• shadoof

The pharaoh also __________ land to officials, priests, and wealthy Egyptians whom he favored.

• distributed

• bureaucrats

• irrigated

Two of the most crucial gods were the sun god Re and the river god Hapi . Another important god was ______.

• Ashurbanipal

• Osiris

• Imohtep

Egyptians thought that the pharaoh's soul resided in his body, and that the body had to be protected in order for the soul to complete the journey to the ________.

• Nile River

• pyramid

• afterlife

All people—rich and poor—could hope for eternal life with the help of the god Osiris. As a result, the process of ___ emerged so that Egyptians could protect bodies for the afterlife.

• hieroglyphics

• embalming

• distribution

The Egyptians honored their pharaohs in a special way. They built great __ called pyramids for the pharaohs.

• labor

• tombs

• construct

Thousands of workers spent years of hard ______to build the pyramids.

• theocracy

• construct

• labor

The _______ of the people in ancient Egypt reflected their social status, or position in society.

• roles

• shadoof

• labor

The largest Egyptian social classes included farmers, unskilled workers, and enslaved people. Unskilled workers performed ________ labor, such as unloading cargo from boats and transporting it to markets

• manual

• resided

• distributed