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How does the annual flooding of the Nile affect farmers in the Nile River Valley?

• It makes it difficult for farmers to get their crops to market.

• It enriches the soil with new nutrients carried in from upriver.

• It destroys whatever crops have not been harvested by late spring.

• It enables them to grow a crop of rice between the harvest of other crops.

What effect did the invention of irrigation systems have on ancient Egypt?

• It allowed agriculture to spread beyond the river valley.

• It reduced farmers’ dependence on aid from the pharaoh.

• It brought fresh-water supplies to far-off desert settlements

• It helped protect crops from damage caused by seasonal flooding.

Which two activities were most important to the strength of the ancient Egyptian economy?

• conquest and construction

• shipbuilding and fishing

• mining and tool-making

• farming and trade

To the people of ancient Egypt, the pharaoh was primarily a

• political symbol

• skilled bureaucrat

• religious leader

• military commander

What were the benefits of farmers living near the Nile River?

• it created desert like conditions

• it flooded and deposited fresh soil

• there were no benefits

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

• nation-state

• shaduf

• papyrus

• dynasty

Ancient Egyptians preserved bodies with _________________ because they thought rulers would need them in their afterlife.

• dynasties

• mummies

• cataracts

• hieroglyphics

To store their mummies after death, rulers used ______________.

• pyramids

• hieroglyphics

• mummies

• cataracts

Ancient Egyptians invented ________________ which was a paper like material that could be written on to keep records.

• shaduf

• hieroglyphics

• papyrus

• cataracts

Which of the following was not a job performed by a priest?

• collecting taxes
• provided advice for the pharaoh 
• maintaining temples of the gods
• judicial duties