Ancient Egypt

A family of kings or other rulers who have ruled over a country for many years.

• Monarch

• Theocracy

• Regent

• Dynasty

Egypt’s great pyramids were constructed during the...

• Old Kingdom

• First Intermediate Period

• Middle Kingdom

• New Kingdom

Egypt’s government can best be described as a…

• male-dominated monarchy

• male-dominated theocracy

• democratic theocracy

• egalitarian social democracy

The Rosetta Stone is the stone tablet that…

• on which the oldest written record is found.

• that contains Ramses II’s treaty with the Hittites.

• on which the first legal code is written.

• that helped to decipher hieroglyphics.

A state controlled by religious leaders.

• monarchy

• theocracy

• democracy

• aristocracy

The Nile River did all of the following for the Egyptians, except…

• provide several natural resources for the population.

• provide food and water for the people of Egypt.

• provide protection from invaders.

• provide transportation through the kingdom.

A payment made by one ruler or country to another more powerful one, especially in order to be protected.

• tribute

• regent

• pictograph

• theocrat

He lived to be one of the oldest pharaohs ever and helped write the first peace treaty in recorded history.

• Hatshepsut

• Akhenaten

• Ramses II

• Amenhotep III

He was born Amenhotep IV, but changed his name and moved the capital to Amarna to pursue the religious conversion of Egypt.

• Hatshepsut

• Akhenaten

• Ramses II

• Amenhotep III

He created some of the first pyramids ever like the Step Pyramid of Saqqara.

• Tutankhamen

• Khufu

• Menes

• Djoser