Sprint Week Unit 2

Which one would be part of the Topography of ancient Egypt?

• A long growing season

• A hot, dry climate

• A river valley

• A mountain range

How did ancient Egyptians and Kushites benefit when the Nile River Flooded?

• The floods made it easier to keep enemies away

• The floods help the leaders stay in power

• the floods left silt behind that was good for farming

• the floods kept the two civilizations separate from each other

Useful Vegetation along the Nile included:

• Ducks and geese

• Barges and boats

• reeds and papyrus

• canals and ditches

how did ancient Egyptian settlements benefit by being surrounded by desert?

• The desert had good land for growing crops

• the desert made trade and transport easy

• the desert offered protection from invaders

• the desert had plants that sheep could graze on

Why did ancient Egyptians make mummies?

• To decorate the places of the pharaohs

• to preserve dead bodies for the afterlife

• to transport goods up and down the Nile

• To educate and protect the royal children

One physical feature was most important to ancient settlers in Egypt and Kush. Because of how important it was, people settled:

• near a river

• on hills

• around trees

• in a desert

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 the pharaohs when they died

Why do historians use a pyramid or a triangle to describe the social classes of Egypt rather than a square or cube?

• The triangle represents Egypt because they had pyramids

• Squares are boring

• more people were in the bottom classes than the top, so the pyramid is a good shape to represent that.

• Historians dislike cubes because they remind them of ice cubes and no one likes to be cold.

What physical feature most contributed to BOTH Fertile soil and Foreign trade in ancient Kush?

• the Red Sea

• the Nile river

• the Nubian Desert

• the Mediterranean Sea

How did Government officials in Egypt get their job?

• they attended school to learn how to govern

• popular elections showed the vote of the people

• priests relied on signs from the gods to choose them

• they inherited the position from a family member