Ch 7 Vocabulary Quiz

life after death

• after life

• heaven

• hieroglyphics

• mummification

a government run by religious leaders and religious laws.

• democracy

• theocracy

• monarchy

• dictatorship

Choose the correct definition of mummification

• the belief in a single god

• the process of drying out a body, thus preserving it

• the process of placing a body in a tomb

• the belief in an afterlife

a person held captive and forced to work without pay

• fugitive

• abolitionist

• conductor

• slave

a paper-like material made from a reed plant

• hieroglypic

• shaduf

• vizier

• papyrus

Choose the correct definition of scribe.

• a person trained to write and keep records

• a person trained to produce new agricultural tools

• a person trained to use standard measurement

• a person trained to domesticate farm animals

Choose the correct definition of pharaoh.

• a powerful merchant in Egypt

• a powerful scribe in Egypt

• a powerful ruler in Egypt

• a powerful vizier in Egypt

A sarcophagus is an Egyptian

• slave

• scribe

• king

• coffin

Choose the correct definition of polytheistic.

• worshiping at a single temple

• believing in or worshiping more than one god

• believing in or worshiping one god

• worshiping at more than one temple

a high-ranked group of people who make laws for a society

• lower class

• middle class

• ruling class

• pharaoh