Egypt test Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt	King Menes unified Upper/Lower Egypt around 3100 BC
Great Pyramid of Giza for who	Built for Pharaoh Khufu, was the tallest manmade structure for 3800 years
Bureaucracy	system of offices/officials that handle government business
Trade between Egypt and Kush	Through trade, Kush adopted Egyptian culture/religion
Polytheism	belief in/worship of more than one god
Egypt's River	The Nile River
Pharaoh	king/queen of Egypt
Hieroglyphics	drawing/symbol that represents a word/sound
The Rosetta stone	granite slab, found by French soldiers in 1799, had Hieroglyphics,Demotic script, and ancient Greek. Allowed is to translate/read ancient Egyptian
Dynasty	ruling family, passes down power from one member to another
Cartouche on Coffins	Believed their Ba and Ka needed to find their way back to their tomb/body
Cataracts	rocky rapids along the upper Nile River
Delta	land formed from sediment deposited at mouth of a river
Process to get to the Land of Two Fields	First mummify bodies,Second do good deeds to get Osiris's approval for the Afterlife
Steps Ani took to survive Underworld	Paid for mummification/scarab amulet/protection spells. Bought Book of the Dead to avoid monsters. Scarab amulet protected him while he was tested/heart weighed. Got OK from Osiris to enter Afterlife
Sumerian and Egyptian religious similarities	They were both polytheists, with many different gods
Nile River Importance	It flooded yearly, deposited water and silt, making fertile soil for farming
Egyptian Religion-Mummification	Their religion taught that they needed their body in the Afterlife
Papyrus	writing material made from a reed found along the Nile River
Great Pyramids-Egypt's greatest achievements	Largest/tallest man-made structures for thousands of years, required vast coordination/workers, and required vast amounts of heavy building materials/labor

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unified	King Menes _____ Upper/Lower Egypt around 3100 BC	1	1	true
tallest	Built for Pharaoh Khufu, was the _____ manmade structure for 3800 years	2	1	true
handle	system of offices/officials that _____ government business	3	1	true
Through	_____ trade, Kush adopted Egyptian culture/religion	4	1	true
Polytheism	Answer: belief in/worship of more than one god	5	0	false
The Nile River	Question: Egypt's River	6	1	false
king/queen of Egypt	Question: Pharaoh	7	1	false
represents	drawing/symbol that _____ a word/sound	8	1	true
soldiers	granite slab, found by French _____ in 1799, had Hieroglyphics,Demotic script, and ancient Greek. Allowed is to translate/read ancient Egyptian	9	1	true
Dynasty	Answer: ruling family, passes down power from one member to another	10	0	false
Cartouche on Coffins	Answer: Believed their Ba and Ka needed to find their way back to their tomb/body	11	0	false
Cataracts	Answer: rocky rapids along the upper Nile River	12	0	false
Delta	Answer: land formed from sediment deposited at mouth of a river	13	0	false
Afterlife	First mummify bodies,Second do good deeds to get Osiris's approval for the _____	14	1	true
survive	Steps Ani took to _____ Underworld	15	0	true
different	They were both polytheists, with many _____ gods	16	1	true
Nile River Importance	Answer: It flooded yearly, deposited water and silt, making fertile soil for farming	17	0	false
Egyptian	_____ Religion-Mummification	18	0	true
writing	_____ material made from a reed found along the Nile River	19	1	true
structures	Largest/tallest man-made _____ for thousands of years, required vast coordination/workers, and required vast amounts of heavy building materials/labor	20	1	true