First Civilizations Quiz

Major river that runs through all of Egypt and allowed civilization to develop:

• Yangtze River

• Nile River

• Tigris River

• Indus River

The Egyptian system of writing that used symbols as meanings:

• Demotics

• Cuneiform

• Phoenicia

• Hieroglyphics

The fertile, triangular shaped area at the mouth of the Nile River

• Nile Delta

• Nile Crescent

• Fertile Delta

• Hapi’s Gift

Guides to navigating the Afterlife that were buried with Egyptians when they died:

• Bible of Ra

• The Book of the Dead

• Canopic Scripts

• Papyrus of Narfum

The two regions of Egypt:

• North and South Egypt

• Nubian and Saharan Egypt

• Upper and Lower Egypt

• Hellenistic Egypt and Ptolemaic Egypt

Rulers of Egypt that were also believed to be gods on earth:

• Sultans

• Diwans

• Nomarch

• Pharaohs

A stone tablet that allows translation of ancient Egyptian languages, discovered in 1799:

• Dead Sea Scrolls

• Rosetta Stone

• Journal of Hatshepsut

• The Old Testament

The paper-like advancement that Egyptians wrote on and used as scrolls:

• Parchment

• Stationary

• Papyrus

• Cyprus

A series of rulers sharing a common origin is called a:

• Monarchy

• Dynasty

• Royal Family

• Oligarchy

Which sentence best represents the meaning of this word:

• I ate a sarcophagus for breakfast because it was so colorful.

• The pharaoh slept in his sarcophagus in his royal chamber.

• Only pharaohs were buried in a sarcophagus.

• A sarcophagus is a large stone coffin used for burying the dead in ancient Egypt.