Ancient Egypt Quiz 2 3rd period

Osiris and Isis are important in Egyption history because they

• were the arcitects of the Great Pyramid

• were the Pharaohs who re-united Egypt

• were the child of Ra, the Sun god

• were the basis of Egyptians belief in the afterlife

Egypt practiced polytheism, the worship of many gods, for most of its history.

• True

• False

Egyptians believed the following about the Pharaoh

• that he was the child of Ra, the sun god.

• believed that the Pharaoh gave life to Egypt and its people.

• that Pharaoh was god that should be worshipped.

• all of the above.

How did Egyptians pay taxes to Pharaoh?

• with surplus crops

• working in the Temples

• building the pyramids

• with money they made from selling goods

During the Old Kingdom only the following could be mummified for the afterlife.

• Priests

• scribes

• Pharaohs

• Pharaohs and Priests

The Great Pyramid was the tallest man made structure in the world until the 1800s when the Eiffel Tower was built in Paris, France.

• True

• False

The _______ was made from a single block of rock.

• The Great Pyramid

• The Temple of Ra

• The Sphynx

• The tomb of King Tut

The system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians was caalled

• Cuneiform

• Pictographs

• Reformed Egyptian

• Hieroglyphics

Egyptians invented one of the earliest forms of paper called

• Pypactic

• Papyrus

• Rice paper

• Bamboo Pictographs

This class of people were the only ones that could read or write in Hieroplyphs or do math.

• Priests

• Pharaohs

• Scribes

• Merchants