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Chapter 5/ Lesson 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Theocracy | government by religious leaders |
| Pharaoh | ruler of ancient Egypt |
| Bureaucrat | a government official |
| Embalming | the process of treating a body to prevent it from decaying |
| Pyramid | great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh |
| Distribute | to divide shares and deliver the shares to different people |
| Crucial | important or significant |
| Reside | to be present continuously or have a home in a particular place |
| Labor | work |
| Construct | build |
| Role | the function or part an individual fills in society . |
| Manual | involving physical effort |
| Obtain | to gain something through a planned effort |
| Around ______, Egypt entered the period known as the Old Kingdom. A.2600 b.c. | 2600 b.c. |
| A government in which the same person is both the political and religious leader is called a ______. | theocracy |
| Why did the Egyptians embalm the bodies of their dead pharaohs? | to preserve them while the souls traveled to the afterlife |
| The Egyptian pyramids were actually large ______. | tombs |
| The Egyptians always believed that only pharaohs could reach the afterlife. | FALSE |
| Who mostly built the Egyptian pyramids? | farmers |
| What invention resulted from the Egyptians studying the sky? | a 365-day calendar |
| Who made up the largest class in Egypt's social structure? | farmers and unskilled workers |
| If they tried hard enough, people from Egypt's lower classes could improve their social status. | TRUE |
| In an Egyptian family, the ______ was head of the household. | father |
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