Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Chapter 3 Quiz

a huge building with four sloping triangular-shaped walls

• afterlife
• mummy
• pyramid
• Giza

a life after death

• afterlife
• mummy
• pyramid
• Giza

site of the Great Pyramid and an Egyptian City

• afterlife
• mummy
• pyramid
• Giza

a dead body preserved in lifelike condition

• afterlife
• mummy
• pyramid
• Giza

What happened when Nubians took control of trade routes by using iron weapons?

• They made pyramids from metal instead of stone.
• Meroë became rich.
• They stopped spending time growing crops.
• Meroë controlled an empire that extended into Europe.

An _______ is a mineral or a combination of minerals mined for the production of metals.

• ore
• fools gold
• papyrus
• oil

Because of Nubia’s location between Egypt and Central Africa, it was

• the first sea empire.
• a center for trade.
• never very prosperous.
• destroyed by the people of Kush

Who predicted the Nile River would probably flood?

• astronomers
• farmers
• pharaohs
• priestesses

Kerma had gained _______, and _______ from controlling the trade between Africa and Egypt.

• famine, and disease
• wealth, and power
• fear, and isolation
• life, and liberty

What tells us about everyday life of the ancient Egyptians?

• oral traditions
• tomb and temple paintings
• parchment scrolls
• Sirius