Ancient Egypt, TEST

Who united upper and lower Egypt?

• Imhotep

• Namar

• Amenhotep IV

• Axum

What were two rights that ancient Egyptian women had?

• The right to run for the president of Egypt and divorce their husbands

• The right to go to school and the right to be a judge

• The right to do business and own land

• To be a religious leader and could be sold by their husbands

Great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh

• mummy
• ziggurat
• pyramid
• cataract

Why is King Tutankhamen famous?

• He was the first pharaoh of Egypt and started the first dynasty

• His tomb, treasures, and mummy were found intact (meaning his tomb had not been robbed)

• He was the god Osiris and wrote THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

Who tried to give the Egyptians a new religion where they worshiped just one god, the Sun god?

• King Tut

• Ramses II

• Akhenaton

Egypt was kept isolated, or separate from others because ____

• of the large mountains around the Nile and the unpredictable flooding

• of the large deserts surrounding them and the dangerous cataracts that prevented ships from attacking

Unlike in Mesopotamia, in Egypt the Nile River flooding could be described as ___

• Upper Egypt

• unpredictable

• predictable

The Egyptians mummified people because they believed ___

• the tombs in the pyramids would be robbed

• the body had to be protected for the soul to complete the journey to the afterlife

• the decaying body was the secret to the journey to meet the god Osiris

Which is a reason that the Nile River has been called "the lifeblood" of Egypt?

• Its river would flood each year and cause much death

• It provided water for farming, drinking water and the delta provided fertile soil for farming.

• mummies were found buried in the fertile soil around the Nile Rive

What is one similarity between Mesopotamia and Egypt?

• both developed a writing system

• both were located near the Nile River

• both used papyrus