Ancient Egypt

How does the Nile River flow?

• starting in the south to the north 
• starting in the north to the south 
• starting in the middle to the north 
• starting in the middle to the south 

What happened to wealthy Egyptians after they died?

• They were mummifed
• They were buried in a casket
• They floated down the Nile River
• They were burned

Egypt is in

• Antrartica
• Asia
• Africa
• Europe

Lower Egypt is located in southern Egypt

• True
• False

What was on the Rosetta stone?

• random marks
• a list of rules
• 3 languages
• a tomb

In the Egyptian social order, which class was a part of the bureaucracy which helped the pharaoh run the government and temples?

• nobles
• scribes
• craftspeople
• servants

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

• authors
• writers
• typists
• scribes

Who would the people blame, in the Old Kingdom, if crops did not grow or if disease struck?

• the farmers

• the mummies

• the pharaoh

• the dynasty that was in power

Why were tombs filled with art, jewelry, etc.....?

• Tombs were museums.
• Tombs were private storage for the pharaoh.
• Tombs were the safest place in the kingdom.
• They believed the dead enjoyed their materials in the afterlife.

The first pharaoh and rulers after him wore a pschent to symbolise

• their rule of the queens

• their rule over upper and lower Egypt

• the Nile flowed 2 ways

• both farming and herding were important