Life in Ancient Egypt quiz

Around ______, Egypt entered the period known as the Old Kingdom.

• 2600 b.c.

• 2200 b.c.

• 2055 b.c.

• 1055 b.c.

The land along the Nile River in the Sudan is covered by (a)   that provided the Nubians grass

to feed their livestock.

Government officials called ____________________ were appointed by the pharaoh and carried out his orders.

• pharaohs

• senators

• bureaucrats

• theocrats

Priests worked carefully to (a)   the bodies of the dead, making mummies that were then

buried in tombs.

Information learned from _____________ helped Egyptians develop medical

knowledge

• Pyramids

• embalming

• mommies

• astronomy

Why did the Egyptians embalm the bodies of their dead pharaohs?

• to learn how human bodies worked

• to honor and show their respect for the dead

• to prove that pharaohs were humans, not gods

• to preserve them while the souls traveled to the afterlife

The Egyptian pyramids were actually large ______.

• ports

•  tombs

• temples

•  palaces

Traders, artisans, and scribes made up ancient Egypt’s ____________________ class.

• upper

• lower

• middle

How do Egyptians use a shadoof?

• to work iron weapons

•  to carry out the process of mummification

• to lift buckets of water from the Nile onto dry land

• to make hieroglyphic marks on stone

What invention resulted from the Egyptians studying the sky?

• fractions

• geometry

• written numbers

• a 365-day calendar