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Egypt and Nubia

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What body of water lies East of Egypt?

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Red Sea

c)

Cataracts

d)

Mr. Jordan River

2.

Upper Egypt was near the Nile River Delta

a)

False

b)

True

3.

What would most Egyptian farmers do when the growing season was over?

a)

Work as scribes

b)

Travel to Nubia

c)

Work on Pharaoh's building projects

d)

Relax

4.

What is Polytheism?

a)

The belief in many Gods

b)

The belief in Ra, the Sun God

c)

The belief in one God

d)

Egyptians did not believe in polytheism

5.

Why did Egyptians develop various forms of writing (besides hieroglyphs)?

a)

to honor the Kings

b)

papyrus was scratchy

c)

to express ideas that were difficult to write in symbols

d)

to communicate with Nubians

6.

What is the most likely reason an Ancient Egyptian would celebrate New Year in mid-summer?

a)

start of pyramid building

b)

Start of dry season

c)

Tut's birthday

d)

Annual flooding of the Nile

7.

Who was the famous female Pharaoh's who took control when her husband died?

a)

Isis

b)

Nefertiti

c)

King Tut's wife

d)

Hatshepsut

8.

What did Nubia have that was different than Egypt?

a)

larger pyramids

b)

Mummies

c)

Papyrus

d)

Rich Gold mines

9.

Ancient Egyptians centered their life around pleasing whom?

a)

Merchants

b)

Mrs. Peek

c)

Elders

d)

Gods

10.

What is the source of the Nile?

a)

Blue and White Nile

b)

Mediterranean Sea

c)

Indian Ocean

d)

River God

11.

What caused the Black Land?

a)

pollution

b)

cataracts

c)

yearly flooding

d)

deserts

12.

King Narmer/Menes is famous for what?

a)

First King

b)

United upper and lower Egypt

c)

Wore a double crown

d)

all of these

13.

Osiris, Isis, Horus are examples of

a)

Social media tweets

b)

Pharaohs

c)

Egyptian Gods

d)

mummification terms

14.

Hieroglyphs are ______________.

a)

Cuneiform

b)

Musical Notes

c)

Papyrus

d)

Drawings or symbols

15.

The best Social Studies teacher is

a)

Mr. Jordan

b)

Mrs. Peek

c)

Ms. Jackson

d)

all of these

16.

What was the purpose of the pyramids?

a)

hold prisoners

b)

remains of dead pharaohs

c)

store grain

d)

priests to pray

17.

What made Egyptian lunar calendar difficult to use?

a)

minutes were different lengths

b)

every year had a different number of days

c)

only well educated were allowed to use calendar

d)

preferred farming in sunlight

18.

Egyptian achievements include:

a)

mummification

b)

papyrus paper

c)

Sphinx at Giza

d)

all of the above

19.

What is commerce?

a)

relying on another country

b)

military strategy

c)

luxury goods

d)

buying and selling goods and services

20.

Why did Nubians need Egypt's grains?

a)

They wanted to trade with African tribes

b)

The narrow area that they farmed was not enough and they were hungry

c)

Nile didn't flood

d)

to pay for the Ivory

21.

What did Nubians have that Egypt wanted?

a)

Gold

b)

pyramids

c)

Ivory

d)

both Gold and Ivory

22.

Where did most Egyptians live and why?

a)

Lower Egypt near delta to grow more crops

b)

upper Egypt near cataracts because lots of flooding

c)

"Red Lands" where they can grow more grain

d)

Nubia so they can have access to Gold

23.

What technology aided in Egypt's food supply?

a)

Complex irrigation

b)

Earthen walls around farms

c)

both of these

d)

none of these

24.

A surplus of crops lead to ______

a)

Trade

b)

Cities

c)

Both

d)

none

25.

During Old Kingdom, this King had "Great pyramid of Giza" built.

a)

Ramses

b)

Tut

c)

Menes

d)

Khufu

26.

This pharaoh drove out the Hyskos starting New Kingdom

a)

Ahmose

b)

Khufu

c)

Ramses

d)

Thutmose

27.

Skilled artisans kept written records of the products they made

a)

True

b)

False

28.

The bureaucracy collected taxes in the form of surplus crops

a)

False

b)

True

29.

Nubia was located ___________

a)

Northern Egypt

b)

Lower Egypt

c)

Near Nile Delta

d)

none of these

30.

What desert lies East and West of "Black Lands"?

a)

Nubian

b)

Thebes

c)

Sahara

d)

none of these