Ancient Egypt

The ancient Egyptians believed that their pharaohs were...

• unfair and cruel

• gods in human form

• greedy and selfish

• the best rulers in the whole wide world

True or False: The Egyptians were the first civilization to invent the wheel.

• True
• False

The ancient Egyptians did not think ____ _____ was important. So, they pulled it out through the nose.

• The stomach

• The brain

• The lungs

• The liver

Why were tombs filled with art, jewelry, and other treasures?

• the tombs served as museums

• the tombs were the private storage rooms of the pharaoh

• Egyptians believed tombs to be the safest places in the kingdom

• Egyptians believed the dead enjoyed such materials in the afterlife

Name the world's earliest form of paper that was invented by the Egyptians.

• papyrus

• cuneiform

• hieroglyphics

• bone script

Which Egyptian ruler promoted trade over warfare, including making peace with the Hyksos kingdom?

• Ramses II

• King Tut

• Hatshepsut

• Akhanaten

This picture is an example of...

• Cuneiform

• Sanskrit

• Latin

• Heiroglyphics

The Nile River begins in Ethiopia and flows out into the ____________________ Sea.

• Dead

• Red

• Mediterranean

• Black

A _____________________ is a line of rulers from the same family.

• nation-state

• shaduf

• papyrus

• dynasty

What are hieroglyphics?

• seasons in the calendar

• writing that used symbols for sounds, words, and ideas

• device used to get water to crops

• tombs for rulers