Ancient Egypt Social Studies Test Randle's Team

The forced payments sent to the pharaoh by conquered peoples are called...

• bribes

• surveys

• taxes

• tribute

The ancient Egyptians called an embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips a...

• cadaver

• corpse

• morgue

• mummy

The government in which the same person is both the political and religious leader is a...

• oligarchy

• theocracy

• democracy

• monarchy

The Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh's body from decomposing was...

• creating a dummy stuffed with straw

• removing only the eyes

• surveying a pyramid

• the act of embalming

The chief god of the Egyptians was...

• Bel

• Re

• Osiris

• Tutankhamen

Who tried to give the Egyptians a new religion?

• Amenhotep IV

• Osiris

• Ramses II

• Thebes

The king who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt was...

• Ahmose

• Amenhotep

• Re

• Tutankhamen

What type of land bordered the Nile River in Egypt?

• deserts

• marshes

• mountains

• savannas

Who was the king of Upper Egypt that conquered Lower Egypt and united Egypt under one king for the first time?

• Gomer

• Ramses

• Hatshepsut

• Narmer

Which is a reason the Nile River has been called "the lifeblood" of Egypt?

• it borders two of the largest deserts in the world

• it has dangerous cataracts

• it is the longest river in the world

• its valley and delta provide fertile soil for farming