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Ancient Egypt ?
Question | Answer |
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What was the natural barrier that protected Egypt in the south? | cataracts |
What is the location of the Nile Delta? | Lower Egypt |
What did the Egyptians studied to learn how to obtain life after death? | Book of Dead |
What is the second to the last social class in Ancient Egypt? | farmers and herders |
What was the most important group in Ancient Egyptian society? | family |
Why did Egyptians build pyramids in which to bury their pharaohs? | to preserve the body and to provide them with all their needs in the afterlife |
The Egyptians willingly served their all powerful leader because they believed ... | unity came from a strong leader |
As a result of being conquered by Egypt, Nubians did what? | accepted many Egyptians beliefs and customs |
What group did the most work on the pyramids? | FARMERS |
What ruler avoided military conquest and expanded Egypt's economy? | HATSHEPSUT |
A government in which the same person is the political and religious leader is called a | theocracy |
What caused the decline and fall of the Egyptian Empire? | the Egyptians were attacked by neighboring people |
What are the reasons why the Nile River is considered the heart of Egypt? | it is a life source of trade, it waters the crops, and it's flooding provides fertile soil |
The pharaoh was considered to be | the god on earth that protected Egypt |
What rights did most Egyptians women have? | serve as priest, make will and obtain divorce, and own property |
What pharaoh tried to start a new religion based on one deity, Aton? | AMENHOTEP IV |
What ruler became a pharaoh at the age of 10? | KING TUT |
What region later became known as Kush? | NUBIA |
During the New Kingdom, what pharaoh's armies conquered many areas and made slavery widespread in Egypt? | THUTMOSE III |
The Nile River's flooding could be described as? | PREDICTABLE |