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World History Pgs7-8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What celestial body is our calender based on? | The Sun |
| What kind of tools in 4,000 B.C. to 1,000 B.C. | Bronze |
| What civilization created our calender? | Egypt |
| What natural barriers did Egypt have? | Deserts |
| What was Ramses most known for? | Being a builder. |
| Roughly how many items was King Tut buried with? | Over 5,000 |
| What is Egypt said to be? | "Gift Of The Nile" |
| Name two major Egyptian gods? | Set, Osiris, or Ra |
| Why is King Tuts tomb important? | It was never raided. |
| Who was the last queen of the thirty-two dynasties? | Cleopatra |
| What empire adopted the Egyptian calender? | The Roman Empire |
| What artifact allowed archaeologist to decipher hieroglyphics? | The Rosetta Stone |
| What is the Sphinx? | A Sphinx is an great rock sculpture with a head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion. |
| What is hieroglyphics? | preserved records of Egyptian culture for thousands of years. |
| When was the Rosetta Stone founded? | by Napoleons Armies in the late 1700's. |
| What is the size of the United States? | The Sahara Desert. |
| what is Africa's major geographic features? | The Sahara Desert and the Kalahari Desert. |
| What is Africa's highest mountain. | Mt.Kilimanjaro. |
| Describe a delta? | Deltas are flat areas of land that sometimes flow at the mouth of the river. |