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Ch. 4 - Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was uncovered on July 15, 1799? | Rosetta Stone |
| The Rosetta Stone was found at a __________ site. | construction |
| The Rosetta Stone was about __________ feet tall and 2½ feet wide. | four |
| The Rosetta Stone was inscribed with __________ made in 196BC. | laws |
| He united Upper and Lower Egypt into the “Old Kingdom” about 3100BC. | Menes |
| Thutmose II shared royal duties with __________ until she disappeared. | Hatshepsut |
| Hatshepsut was a woman who ruled Egypt while dressed in men's __________. | attire |
| __________ was married to the daughter of Akhenaton and Nefertiti. | Tutankhamen |
| Legend says that Menes ruled Egypt for 62 years and was killed by a __________. | hippopotamus |
| Akhenaton is best remembered for practicing __________ in ancient Egypt. | monotheism |
| Elaborate stone coffins that housed mummies. | sarcophagi |
| This boy king became pharaoh when he was nine years old. | Tutankhamen |
| Egyptian __________ took about 70 days and was an expensive process that not all families could afford. | mummification |
| The jars would be decorated with the images of the "four sons of __________." | Horus |
| The Egyptians did not understand the importance of the __________. | brain |
| Priests removed it by inserting a special hook through the nostrils to the skull. | brain |
| A woman pharaoh who dressed in men’s clothes. | Hatshepsut |
| Someone who rules in place of a monarch until they are old enough to rule on the own. | regent |
| This monotheistic pharaoh worshipped a sun god. He did not allow the Egyptian people to worship any other gods. | Akhenaton |
| The ancient Egyptians were careful to say only good things about the __________. | dead |
| Today the treasures of __________’s have been exhibited around the world. | Tutankhamen |
| This French scholar translated the Rosetta Stone into Greek. | Champollion |
| Royal families often __________ because they did not want to produce children with common people. | intermarried |
| A large waterfall. | cataracts |
| The ancient Egyptians believed that as long as the body existed, a person continued to live in the __________. | afterlife |
| Children were buried with their __________ so that they could play in the afterlife. | toys |
| This river flows through Egypt. | Nile |
| Bits of soil and plant life that created good farmland along the Nile River. | silt |
| Jean Champollion concluded that hieroglyphics had originally been pictographs, but they stood for __________ in later times. | sounds |
| The pyramids were stone structures built as tombs and __________ to their pharaohs. | monuments |
| The Egyptians wrote on sheets made from stalks of __________. | papyrus |
| British archaeologist Howard __________ uncovered this pharaoh’s tomb in 1922. | Carter |
| The Great Pyramid of __________ is over 450 feet tall. | Giza |
| A __________ is used to obstruct passage in a given direction, such as a wall, barricade, or roadblock. | barrier |
| He was the first pharaoh we know about. | Menes |
| He became pharaoh shortly when he was nine years old, but died when he was eighteen. | Tutankhamen |
| Monotheism is the __________ in one God. | belief |
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