Ch. 5 Lesson 2

The Egyptians willingly served their all-powerful leader because they believed

• the leader appointed officials.
• the leader had an afterlife.
• the leader would not enslave them.
• unity came from a strong leader.

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

• 2600 B.C.
• 2200 B.C.
• 2055 B.C.
• 1055 B.C.

To learn how to obtain life after death, the Egyptians studied the

• Book of Life After Death.
• Book of Prayers.
• Book of Spells.
• Book of the Dead.

A government in which the same person is both the political and religious leader is called a ______.

• dynasty
• pharaoh
• theocracy
• bureaucrat

While building the pyramids, the Egyptians developed

• a 365-day calendar with 12 months.
• a new social class.
• geometry.
• hieroglyphics.

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

An embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips is a

• cadaver.
• corpse.
• morgue.
• mummy.

The Egyptian pyramids were actually large ______.

• ports
• tombs
• temples
• palaces

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

• creating a dummy stuffed with straw.
• removing only the eyes.
• surveying the pyramid.
• the act of embalming.

The Egyptians always believed that only pharaohs could reach the afterlife.

• TRUE
• FALSE