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Pages 7 and 8
World History pages 7 and 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What two metals make bronze? | copper, and tin make bronze. |
| How long did the broze age last? | AbouT 3,000 years. |
| Why did the Egyptians think the river was sacred? | It seperates the land of the living from the land of the dead. |
| What are Egypts two main geographic features? | The Nile and the Sahara desert. |
| What are the important gods of ancient Egypt? | Ra god of the son and the creator of life and osiris the god of rebirth. |
| Who is queen Hatshepsut? | The First important woman ruler. |
| Cleopatra was the last woman ruler of what? | The 31 dynastyies . |
| How did king Tut become famous? | His tomb was the only tomb that was found unrobbed |
| To geologist what was king Tuts tomb | the greatest archeological discovery of all time. |
| Why did government become necessary for society? | Government was needed to keep order in hand as societies grew larger |
| What three major types of government are there in history? | Monarchies, democracies, and dictatorship |
| What are three works of art, literature, and architecture that come ancient Egypt. | Huge tombs of the Pharaoh, the sphinx, and the great pyramids. |
| Who is Ramses the second? | He is a worrior, and builder of great temples and statues. |
| What | Irrigation, the plow, writing, and other technologies. |
| What does a person have to do to enter the next life? | The body has to be preserved through mummification, and religious rituals, performed by priests. |
| Who performs the mummification, and how is it performed? | skilled embalmers remove the vital the organs then drys and wraps the body in strips of linen. |
| What is the most famous barrial tombs of ancient egypt? | They are the great pyramids of Giza near Cairo. |
| What is an example of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. | The Pyramids. |
| Who built the Pyramids? | valued members of society. |
| The age of pyramid building in egypt is? | 1,700. |
| Hieroglyphics have been around in ancient egypt for how many years? | For thousands of years. |
| What makes up papyrus? | Reed plant, that is pressed and dried to make a paper like material. |
| The Rosetta Stone was discovered by who? and in what year? | Napoleans armies in the late 1700s |
| What is Africas major geographic features? | Sahara desert, the Kalahari, and tropical rainforrest center over the congo river basin |