This river flows through Egypt.
1. Tigris
2. Euphrates
3. Nile
4. Jordan
5. Amazon
The pyramids were initially built as…
1. tombs
2. barriers
3. watch towers
4. temples
5. castles
The writing of the ancient Egyptians was called
1. hieroglyphics
2. cyrillic
3. italics
4. cuneiform
5. pinyin
Which statement about mummification in ancient Egypt is false?
1. When a pharaoh’s mummy was complete, a priest would touch the mouth of the mummy with a stick so that the pharaoh could breathe and speak in the afterlife.
2. The Egyptians were very careful about preserving the brain of a mummifeid person.
3. The priests who preserved the mummies were required to perform special rituals or ceremonies during the process.
4. The internal organs of the mummy were stored in jars.
5. Mummification in ancient Egypt was expensive and time consuming.
British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered this pharaoh’s tomb in 1922.
1. Akhenaton
2. Ptolemy I
3. Thutmose II
4. Menes
5. Tutankhamen
Which statement about the Rosetta Stone is false?
1. The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers in 1799.
2. The Rosetta Stone is over 450 feet high.
3. The stone was found near the city of Rosetta, Egypt.
4. The Rosetta Stone was inscribed with a law made in 196BC, written three times in different languages.
This French scholar translated the Rosetta Stone into Greek.
1. Hosni Mubarak
2. Howard Carter
3. Jean Champollion
4. Napoleon Bonaparte
5. Anwar Sadat
6. Charles Darwin
Someone who rules in place of a monarch until they are old enough to rule on the own.
1. silt
2. regent
3. cataract
4. scroll
5. sarcophagi
A large waterfall.
1. silt
2. regent
3. cataract
4. scroll
5. sarcophagi
Bits of soil and plant life that created good farmland along the Nile River.
1. silt
2. regent
3. cataract
4. scroll
5. sarcophagi
The ancient Egyptians mummified everyone when they died.
1. True
2. False
The ancient Egyptians believed that as long as the body existed, a person continued to live in the afterlife.
1. True
2. False
The ancient Egyptians were careful to say only good things about the dead.
1. True
2. False
We know a great deal more about Egyptian afterlife than we do about their culture.
1. True
2. False
Egyptian pharaohs wanted to produce children with common people.
1. True
2. False
The Egyptian government has never allowed the artifacts found by Howard Carter to leave their nation.
1. True
2. False
Hieroglyphics were originally pictographs, but later represented sounds.
1. True
2. False
This is the first pharaoh we know about. He united Upper and Lower Egypt into the “Old Kingdom” about 3100BC.
1. Akhenaton
2. Menes
3. Thutmose II
4. Tutankhamen
5. Hatshepsut
A woman pharaoh who dressed in men’s clothes.
1. Akhenaton
2. Menes
3. Thutmose II
4. Tutankhamen
5. Hatshepsut
This monotheistic pharaoh worshipped a sun god. He did not allow the Egyptian people to worship any other gods.
1. Akhenaton
2. Menes
3. Thutmose II
4. Tutankhamen
5. Hatshepsut
This boy king became pharaoh when he was nine years old.
1. Akhenaton
2. Menes
3. Thutmose II
4. Tutankhamen
5. Hatshepsut
Elaborate stone coffins that housed mummies.
1. regent
2. silt
3. cataract
4. scroll
5. sarcophagi
6. sarcophagus

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