Chapter 8 Pharaohs

What was a major purpose for building pyramids?

• temples for religious worship
• storehouse for grain
• homes for pharaoh's servants
• tombs for pharaohs when they died

Which period is called the "Golden Age" when Egypt reached the height of its power?

• Old Kingdom
• Middle Kingdom
• New Kingdom
• after the New Kingdom

It was built from more than 2 million stone bricks and had tunnels inside

• the Sphinx
• the White Chapel
• the temple at Abu Simbel
• the Great Pyramid at Giza

Why did archaeologists reconstruct the White Chapel?

• shade for tourists
• it gave scientists a place to study what they dug up.
• It was an experiment to learn old construction methods
• It was built by Senusret I but had been taken apart by a later ruler

Hatshepsut was the first pharaoh who was....

• a god
• a child
• a priest
• a woman

Which phrase best describes Hatshepsut's monument at Dayr al-Bahri?

• a pyramid in the open desert
• a mud-brick structure found on an island
• a shrine dug out of rock below ground level
• a great temple built into a cliff above the Nile river

Look at this timeline. In which time period did Egypt have a pharaoh who was especially known for promoting trade?

• between 2066 and 2500 BCE
• between 2000 and 1900 BCE
• between 1500 and 1400 BCE
• between 1300 and 1200 BCE

Answer the riddle:
"I ruled Egypt for more than 60 years. I was a famous military leader. I had hundreds of statues of me built - all over Egypt!
Who was I?"

• Khufu
• Senusret I
• Ramses II
• Hatshepsut

Who signed the world's first peace treaty?

• Egypt and  the Hittites
• Egypt and  the Persians
• Egypt and  the Assyrians
• Egypt and  the Babylonians

Compared with any other pharaoh in history, Ramses II produced more.. 

• books and scholarships
• temples and monuments
• maps based on expeditions
• inventions to use warfare