Topic 3 Lesson 2: Achievements of Egyptian Civilization

A _______ is a drawing or symbol that represents a word or a sound. (P. 115)

• pyramid

• balloon

• hieroglyphic

• papyrus

Our word paper comes from the word (a)   . (P. 116)

Most ancient Egyptians did not know how to write. (a)   , or officials who knew how to write, were valued for their knowledge. (P. 116)

Scribes wrote in ink on papyrus sheets. This was much ______ than pressing letters into wet clay as the Sumerians did. (P. 116)

• easier

• harder

• funner

• more

Ancient Egyptian (a)   included teachings, stories, poems, religious texts, and histories. (P. 116)

The temple complex at (a)   contains the ruins of the world's largest temples, built with massive blocks of stone. (P. 117)

An architect named _______ designed a new kind of tomb for his pharaoh with six stone mounds, one on top of the other. (P. 117)

• Hatshepshut

• Perceus

• Ramses ll

• Imhotep

During the Old Kingdom, three enormous pyramids were built at Giza for king _______.

• Khufu

• Khafre

• Menkaure

• Sphinx

Scholars once thought that slaves had built the pyramids. They now think that many workers were (a)   . (P. 117)

They watched for a bright star called _______ which would appear above the horizon before sunrise about the same time of year as the Nile floods. (P. 118)

• Twinkle

• Sirius

• Osirus

• Tutankhamun