Chapter 5 Practice Test

Hieroglyphics

• A writing system made up of a combination of pictures and sound symbols

• A reed plant that grew wild along the Nile

• A fan shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea

Delta

• A writing system made up of a combination of pictures and sound symbols

• A reed plant that grew wild along the Nile

• A fan shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea

Papyrus

• A writing system made up of a combination of pictures and sound symbols

• A reed plant that grew wild along the Nile

• A fan shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea

A line of rulers from one family.

• pharaoh

• dynasty

• theocracy

Government by religious leaders.

• pharaoh

• dynasty

• theocracy

Rulers of ancient Egypt.

• pharaoh

• dynasty

• theocracy

The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying.

• embalm

• pyramid

• sarcophagus

pyramid

• A stone coffin, typically decorated with a sculpture or inscriptions.

• The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying.

• Great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh.

sarcophagus

• A stone coffin, typically decorated with a sculpture or inscriptions.

• The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying.

• Great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh.

Someone who studies the objects to learn about past human life.

• archaeologist

• cataract

• shadoof

• bureaucrat