Ancient Egypt

An Egyptian king was called a ___________

• scribe
• servant
• papyrus
• pharaoh

What the major river that was in Ancient Egypt?

• Amazon
• Mississippi
• Nile
• Tiber

Which way did the Nile flow?

• North to South
• South to North
• East to West
• West to East

Ancient Egyptians believed their king was ___________________

• a normal person
• a representative of the gods
• a god
• a cat that came back to life

Egyptians had a written language using pictures. It was called ____________.

• cuneiform
• English
• hieroglyphics
• Cursive

How did the yearly flooding of the Nile River affect the people of Egypt?

• It isolated the settlements.

• It left silt that improved the soil.

• It spread diseases that destroyed whole empires.

• It attracted hunters and gatherers looking for wildlife.

What was a MAJOR purpose for building the pyramids?

• temples for religious worship
• storehouses for reserves of grain
• homes for the pharaohs' servants
• tombs for pharaohs when they died

Hatshepsut was the FIRST pharaoh who was___________

• a god.

• a child.

• a priest.

• a woman.

The Nile River is the _____________ river in the world.

• widest
• shortest
• fastest
• longest

During the ____________, the Egyptians began to build pyramids.

• Old Kingdom
• Middle Kingdom
• New Kingdom
• Newest Kingdom