Ancient Egypt Review

The Nile River flows through

• Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt

• Eastern Egypt and Western Egypt

• Mesopotamia

Why was Egypt a great choice for people to settle in permanent homes?

• The wonderful desert plants and birds

• The great areas for hunting

• The fertile land for farming

A natural barrier that protected Egypt

• Mediterranean Sea

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

• pyramids

What was an advantage of Egypt's location?

• the many temples

• the Sumerian artwork

• the natural barriers for protection

• the many dynasties

Pyramids were used for....

• warehouses for surplus food

• temples

• a stone tomb with rectangle sides and a limestone roof

• a royal tomb with four triangle sides

Which belief was the most important to Egyptian religion?

• the afterlife

• the pyramids

• the pharaohs

• the heavens

Why were tombs filled with art, jewelry and other treasures?

• Tombs were also museums.

• Tombs were private storage rooms for pharaohs.

• Tombs were very, very safe places to hold treasures.

• The dead needed such materials for the afterlife.

The southern part of Egypt was called

• Lower Egypt

• Upper Egypt

• The Delta

• Middle Egypt

Define: delta

• a triangle-shaped area of soil deposited by a river

• the source of the river

• rapids and waterfalls

Egyptians believed a person's __________ became a spirit after death.

• ka

• mummy

• Ma'at

• Duat