WorksheetsAncient Egypt
Total questions: 77
Worksheet time: 39mins
Where is Egypt located?
Northeastern Africa
Western Asia
North America
To a Bell
Egypt borders modern day what?
Libya, Sudan, Mesopotamia, and Israel
Libya, Sudan, Israel
New Jersey, Libya, Tokyo
Wich direction is the Med. Sea and Gulf of Aquaba
Med. Sea west and gulf of aquaba north
Med. Sea north and gulf of aquaba south
Med. Sea south and gulf of aquaba west
Med. Sea north and gulf of aquaba east
Where does southern Egypt lie?
Tropic of Coprocorm
Tropic of Libya
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Libra
Close to the equator
Cold
Hot
Warm
What is the longest river in the world?
Amozon River
Yellow River
Nile River
Mesopotamian River
What does the Nile River do?
Bring life to dry areas on land
Give people water
Help with cooking
Makes crops bad
How long ago did people migrate to the Nile Valley?
100,00 years ago
20,000 years ago
10,000 years ago
1,000 years ago
What did the Nile Valley divide into?
North America and South America
Lower Africa and Upper Africa
Upper Egypt and lower Egypt
What is the most fertile area?
Nile Valley
Nile River
Nile Delta
Upper Egypt had what?
Less farm land and no mountains
A lot of farm land and a lot of mountains
Mountains with less farmland
No farmland and all mountains
What did Ancient Egyptians do when they stopped hunting?
Farm
Cook
Migrate
Starve
Why did some land look black?
Low water
Lots of water=silt
No water and bad soil
Lots of water and no silt
What Egyptian god did the Egyptians believe controlled flooding?
Renutet
Muri
Hapi
Was the Egyptian society divided into city states?
Yes
No
What did the Nile do to all Egyptian life?
Brought the population down
Effected farming, religion, and government
Made people leave Egypt
Egyptians shared the same
(a)
What happens when there is not enough rain?
No crops and starving people
Lots of flood
Migrating people
What happens when there is too much rain?
Good crops
Wild floods and ruined crops
Pools form in there backyard
Too many crops
What did the Egyptian calendar do?
Predict flooding
Made birthdays
Make hours
How many seasons were there?
5
3
8
4
What were the seasons?
Inundation, Emergence, flooding
Rainfall, Inundation, spring
Inundation, Emergence, Harvest
How did they control flood waters?
Irrigation canals and ditches
Pools and ponds
Telling the clouds to stop
What did the Egyptians do after flooding
Planted crops
Made a pool
Cleaned it and drank it
What did they develop for spreading water past the Nile?
Irrigation techniques
Irrigation systems
Buckets of Water
What was the first irrigation system?
Ponds and lakes
Canals
Ditching
Basins
Who controlled all farmland?
Chiefs
Fisherman
Richest
Wealthy land owners
What were the main crops in the Nile Valley?
Wheat, carrots, corn
Barley, corn, oranges
Barley, wheat, vegetables
Onions, sugar canes, corn
What animals were used for meat, milk, and work?
Chicken, goats, cows
Cow, pigs and chicken c
Cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs
What was the main protein?
Beef and corn
Rice and bread
Birds and fish
Fish and butter
What happens when there was more farmland?
More crops
More workers needed
More building room
Less water
Produced what for the growing population?
Supply of food
More land
Breeding more animals
Evidence before 3000 BC shows what leadership systems?
Geography
Management
Government
Agriculture
What happens when irrigation techniques improve?
Collects more crops
Farmland increases+ division of labor
Controlling for government=management
What religion where Egyptians?
Polytheistic
Monotheistic
What did each god have
Relationships with other gods
Different responsibilities
Building techniques
What was each person buried with?
Book of the life
Book of the after life
Book of the dead
What were pyramids used for?
Dead people
Gods that died
Leader and important people
Mummy’s
What does the Step-Pyramid mean
Steps to gods
Stairway to heaven
Steps to the clouds
Flat slanted glass
What was one of the most important jobs
Collect crops
Trade
Managing agriculture
Farming
One official controlled the what?
Water sources
Collection of crops
Resource transportation
Embalming the dead
Controlling and managing water sources led to what?
Trade with other countries
Division of labor
Ancient Egypt food surplus
Irrigation system
Different areas began to rely on what?
Trade with Egypt
Growing crops
Shipping food
Hunting
Since the Nile valley provided more crops they could do what for more items?
Hunt
Trade
Transport food
Farm
Egypt traded with other parts of what?
Lebanon on and Nubia
Africa and north America
Africa and south west Asia
Europe
When Egyptians had very little wood, what did they do?
Imported it from Lebanon and nubia
Cut down more trees
Traded for it
Grew more
Trees
What did the Nile provide so the Egyptians did not rely on trade?
Building
Farming
Food and transportation
Migrating
By trading for things they wanted it made them what?
Poor
Wealthy and successful
Be spoiled
Homeless and useless
Because of trade they built ships to do what?
Migrate
Expand trading area
Sail across the sea
Export other
Trade started as a what with leaders hoping for gifts in return
Labor tax
Favor or gift
Food and materials
Gold and jewelry
Was the Egyptian society divided?
Strongly
No
Definitely
Egyptians were hard workers but enjoyed what during their free time off?
Eating
Dancing games singing
Going to parties and drinking
What did women wear?
Jeans and t-shirts
Skirts and rags
Long sleeve dresses
Shorts and long sleeve shirt
What did men wear?
Skirts and short sleeve shirt
Dresses with shirts over
Shorts and t shirt
Both girls and boys wore what?
Scarf
Jewelry and makeup
Gloves
Hats
The wealthy often wore what to symbolize the richness?
Wigs
Hats
Jewelry
Scarf
What were houses made of
Wheat and clay
Mud bricks
Stone
Wood
Women ran the houses but could also do what?
Become Pharos
Build houses
Priest and craft workers
Pharmacist
People believed that what was gifts from god
Children
Long life
Money
Power
What do boys learn to do from there fathers?
Trade
Build
Rule
Farm
What did girls learn?
Farming
Cooking
Weaving and household skills
Writing and reading
Upper class children learned what?
Farming
Ruling
Writing reading and mathematics
Banking
How many dynasties ruled ancient Egypt over 3000 years?
22
49
33
54
Who ruled and was a connection between the people and the gods?
Men
Women
Pharos
Farmers
Who were top government officials who ran day-to-day government
Men
Gods
Viziers
Farmers
Egyptian rule was divided into three errors from when?
2625 bc-1075bc
2000bc-500bc
1000bc-200bc
4000bc-3000bc
During the 500 year period what did traders look for?
Land
Resources
Food
Homes
During the old kingdom what projects did they begin
Homes
New farms
Pyramid
Trade
At the end of the old kingdom what lasted 100 years
Rain
Gods rule
Civil war
loss of power
During the middle Kingdom what else grew and protected the empire
Crops
Power
Kings rule
Trade expanded
What changed and social groups gained more nights during the middle kingdom
Society
Family life
Rulers
Weather
During which kingdom did they set up a system of governors
Old kingdom
Middle kingdom
New kingdom
Past kingdom
Who came from Asia and defeated the Egyptian’s in the new kingdom
Gods
Pharaoh
indians
Hyksos
What new military innovation was introduced
Ships
Planes
Bowen arrow
Horse drawn chariots
Who defeated the Hykos and created the first full-time army
Gods
Egyptian
Pharaoh
Kings
What religion began but didn’t last long
Minotheism
Catholic
Polytheism
Protestant
Egyptian empire grew and who began to rule
Pharaoh
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Hatshepsute
King arthur
