Egypt

What is this an image of?

• An amulet

• A stela

• An obelisk

• A cartouche

The word hieroglyphics literally means

• Royal writing

• Holy writing

• Common writing

• Picture writing

____________ where the only ones allowed to write in hieroglyphics.

• Farmers

• Priests

• Men

• Pharaohs

A delta is

• an irrigation ditch

• a large piece of land with water surrounding it

• an inlet of water that drains into the ocean

• a triangular piece of rich land at the mouth of some rivers

What are the names of the 2 highlighted areas?

• The Nile River and the Red Sea

• Israel and Canaan

• The Nile Delta and the Nile Valley

• The Euphrates River and the Nile Triangle

Before Egypt was unified the land was separated (based on the terrain) into

• Eastern Egypt and Western Egypt

• Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt

• Northern Egypt and Southern Egypt

• Taller Egypt and Smaller Egypt

The Egyptians based their gods on

• real people

• inanimate objects

• things found in nature

• a previous civilization

As Egyptians cities grew in power, their gods grew in _________

• precipitation

• popularity

• polarity

• population

Common Egyptians buried their dead in

• Cave-like tombs

• Sarcophagi

• Underground

• In the floor of their homes

__________ served as tombs for Egyptian rulers

• Nomes

• Ziggurats

• Pyramids

• Temples