The Old and Middle Kingdoms of Egypt

About 3100 B.C., Egyptians developed a form of writing using ___________.

• hieroglyphs

• cuneiform

• letters

• texting

At first, they carved on _________ for religious purposes.

• wood

• rocks

• stone

• marble

Egyptians created a paperlike material called __________ by pressing together layers of plant stalks.

• paper

• cardboard

• platypus

• papyrus

Scribes wrote using sharpened _________.

• reeds

• pencils

• rocks

• spears

Scribes created long _______ on which they would record the history of their nation.

• books

• logs

• scrolls

• notebooks

True or False: Egyptians preserved the bodies of the dead because they believed that they needed their bodies in the afterlife.

• True

• False

Why would items be placed in a royal tomb with a mummy?

• Because they believed the mummy would need those things in the afterlife

• to honor the dead

• for the family to take home

• to get rid of it

By the end of the Old Kingdom, Egypt faced civil war, droughts and widespread ________.

• diease

• famine

• sadness

• unrest

The kingdom was reunited in about 2040 BC and remained ______ for about 250 years.

• unstable

• angry

• upset

• stable

Amenemhet ruled during Dynasty 12. He conquered __________ and brought security to the kingdom.

• Armenia

• Persia

• northern Nubia

• Egypt