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Egypt Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| However, some, like Hatshepsut, had a difficult time giving up the throne, for they wanted ______________________, or complete control over the people. | absolute power |
| The _______, or life after death, was believed to be even better than the present life. | afterlife |
| The pharaoh appointed _________, or government rulers, to carry out his orders. | bureaucrats |
| There, steep cliffs and large boulders form dangerous, fast moving waters called ________. | cataracts |
| These waterways form a fan-shaped area of fertile marshland caled a _______. | delta |
| The right to rule was passed from father to son to grandson, such a line of rulers from one family is called a _________. | dynasty |
| Egyptians believed they could protect bodies for the afterlife, the ________ prepared the body for the afterlife. | embalmer |
| The combination of pictures and sound symbols created a complex writing system called _________. | hieroglyphs |
| The process of removing the body's organs, covering the body with natron, and wrapping it in strips of linen was called __________. | mummification |
| The wrapped body of the dead was called a ______, they were sealed ina coffin and placed in a decorated tomb. | mummy |
| _____ was home to some of the earliest African kingdoms and was a passageway for trade. | Nubia |
| Egyptians gathered _______, a reed plant that grew wild along the Nile to create rope, sandals, baskets, and river rafts. | papyrus |
| An Egyptian ruler is called a _________, which means "great house". | pharaoh |
| The Egyptians honored their pharaohs in a special way; they built great tombs called ________. | pyramid |
| A _____ would rule for a child until the child was old enough to rule. | regent |
| The ______________ was a discovered by Jean Francis Champollion and had three types of writing on it: Hieroglyphics, Demotic (everyday Egyptian language), and Greek. | Rosetta Stone |
| A__________ is a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece. | sarcophagus |
| _________, part of the third level of the pyramid, were some of the only people in Egypt who could read and write. | scribes |
| Egyptian farmers created new tools to make work easier; farmers created a _______, which is a bucket attached to a long pole that lifts water from the Mile and emptiers it into basins. | shadoof |
| ______ made soil fertile enough to farm. | silt |
| A government in which the same person is both the political leader and the religious leader is called a ________. | theocracy |
| The ______ was the pharaoh’s second-in-command and sometimes served as High Priest | vizier |
| The cardinal direction the Nile River flows. | From south to north. |
| Money was spent on public works during the _________________ Kingdom. | Middle Kingdom |
| During the ___________ kingdom they expanded Egypt's armies. | New Kingdom |
| The ____________ Kingdom ended when the government became weak and divided. | Old Kingdom |
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