Ancient Egypt

The Nile River flows from?

• South to North (Upper to Lower Egypt)

• East to West (Eastern to Western Egypt)

• West to East (Western to Eastern Egypt)

• North to South (Lower to Upper Egypt)

This is the place where silt from the Nile River is deposited. It is fan shaped.

• The Amazon Basin

• The Mississippi Delta

• The Fertile Crescent

• The Nile Delta

The people in Ancient Egypt used this technology to water their fields.

• Excavation

• Irrigation

• Exclamation

• Slash and burn agriculture.

This river is the longest river in the world.

• The Mississippi River

• The Hudson River

• The Nile River

• The Yangtze River

This was very important to the creation and survival of Ancient Egyptian civilization

• The flooding of the Nile River every summer

• The sweeping away of desert dust from their chariots

• The creation of weapons they could use to force their enemies into slavery

• The drought of the Nile River

Egyptian civilization was best known for:

• Farming, hieroglyphics, pharaohs, and mummification

• Kings, democracy, Hammurabi, and the Magna Carta

• Cave paintings, rock carvings, hieroglyphics, and mummies

• Rock, paper, scissors

The economy, religion, and government of Ancient Egypt was controlled by this person?

• The priests

• The Pharaoh

• Osiris

• The Army

In Ancient Egypt a scribe would have most likely been a young boy that was trained to write important information on papyrus, as well as temple and tomb walls.

• True

• False

Farmers are on the level above slaves on the Social Pyramid of Ancient Egypt.

• True

• False

Scientist were able to learn how to read hieroglyphics due to the translation of the?

• Alphabet

• Greek

• Rosetta Stone

• Pyramid at Giza