History Ch. 2 Test Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922? True or False | True |
Rameses was the last strong Pharoah of the New Kingdom? True or False | True |
Polytheism is the worship of the one true God? True or False | False |
The Egyptian god Osiris was believed to preside over the Hall of Judgment? True or False | True |
Egyptians did not believe in life after death? True or False | False |
Egyptians believed that the _______ was the son of Horus, thus making him a god and a high priest. | Pharoah |
A _______ calculated the taxes people owed based on their crops. | Nilometer |
The desert that covers most of North Africa is the ________ | Sahara |
The three seasons on the Egyptian calendar were _________, _________, and __________ | Flood, planting, harvest |
Dead bodies that had been embalmed and preserved were called _________ | Mummies |
What are hieroglyphics? | Picture writing |
Who was the man that led the Hebrews out of slavery from Egypt? | Moses |
This was a large black stone that was found in the sand of the Nile Delta and contained a message written in Greek and Egyptian? | Rosetta Stone |
This is called the "Gift of the Nile" | Egypt |
A paper made from the stalk of a reedy plant that grows along the Nile | Papyrus |
A long pole with a bucket on one end; used to irrigate crops. | Shadoof |
The frenchman who worked many years to translate hieroglyphics by comparing the symbols to the Greek language | Jean Champollion |
Group of people who used horse-drawn chariots to invade Egypt and forced the Hebrews into slavery | Hyksos |
He became pharoah at the age of ten and died at the age of nineteen, leaving treasurers | Tutankhamen |
Egyptian goddess who, according to legend, was the wife of Osiris and a protector of children | Isis |
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