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1
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Who ruled Egypt in 3100 BC?

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King Menes

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When did King Menes rule Egypt?

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3100 BC

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How many times a year does heavy rain fill Egypt’s sources, causing the river to swell and burst its banks, flooding the whole land

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Twice

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How much rain does Egypt get?

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Very little

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What were kings of Egypt called?

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Pharaohs

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When was one such pharaoh known as “King Cheops” alive?

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2500 BC

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For thirty years, how many people toiled for the pharaoh whenever they weren’t working in the fields?

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Some hundred thousand

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Why do pharaohs want to build such a gigantic tomb?

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Because it is all part of their religion

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The Egyptians believed in ____________.

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Many gods

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According to the Egyptians, who was known as the “Sun god”

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Amon

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Who was the god in The Kingdom of the Dead?

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Anubis

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For how long has the Sphinx has now been guarding the tombs of the pharaohs?

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More than five thousand years

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What has been guarding the tombs of the pharaohs for more than five thousand years?

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The Sphinx

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What did the Egyptians believe in?

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Although a man’s soul left his body when he died, for some reason the soul went on needing that body, and would suffer if it crumbled into dust

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What was one way the Egyptians made an ingenious way of preserving the bodies of the dead?

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They rubbed their bodies with ointments.

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How did the Egyptians preserved the bodies of the dead?

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They rubbed them with ointments and the juices of certain plants, and bandaged them with long strips of cloth so that they wouldn’t decay

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17
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A mummy was placed inside a coffin made of which materials?

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Wood, the wooden coffin in one of stone, and the stone one buried, not in the earth, but in a tomb that was chiseled out of the rock

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Who was “King Cheops” known as?

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“Sun of the son”

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What was a tomb intended to be?

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A dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body

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What helped helped give us a better picture of ancient Egyptian life?

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The great stone statues and the wonderfully bright and vivid wall paintings

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Who lived around 1370 BC?

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Khenaton, the remarkable man

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When was Khenaton, the remarkable man alive?

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Around 1370 BC

23
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When was considered shortly after the reign of King Cheops

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About 2100 BC

24
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In 2100 BC what happened?

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The reign of King Cheops

25
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In favor of fine new ideas, he also had the walls of his palace painted in an entirely new style?

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Ancient temples were shut down, and King Akhenaton and his wife moved into a new palace.

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A mummy was placed inside a coffin made of which materials?

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Wood, the wooden coffin in one of stone, and the stone one buried, not in the earth, but in a tomb that was chiseled out of the rock

27
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Which animal did the Egyptians worship as sacred animals?

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Cats

28
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Who was the god in The Kingdom of the Dead?

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Anubis

29
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When did King Menes rule Egypt?

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3100 BC

30
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For thirty years, how many people toiled for the pharaoh whenever they weren’t working in the fields?

A

Some hundred thousand

31
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Which animal did the Egyptians worship as sacred animals?

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Cats

32
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When did King Menes brush his teeth?

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585 BC

33
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Which is not related to Akhenaton?

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He invested time in the gods and the culture’s mysterious rituals.

34
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Where was the Jewish Civilization located in ancient times?

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Between Egypt and Mesopotamia

35
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Of what did the Egyptians not sing in praise of their river four-thousand years ago?

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“You water the plains and have the power to feed all cattle. You quench the thirsty desert, far from any water. You bring forth the barley, you create the wheat. You fill the granaries and storehouses, not forgetting the poor.”

36
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Why did the Egyptians preserve all their ancient traditions over the centuries and the priests make sure that no son did anything his father had not done before?

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To them, everything old was sacred.

37
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Who was the god of the Kingdom of the Dead?

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Anubis

38
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Which of the following was not a method that the Ancient Egyptians used to preserve the bodies of the dead?

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They bandaged them with long strips of papyrus so that they wouldn’t decay.

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Why did Ancient Egyptians put in food and furniture and clothes in the tombs and create paintings on the walls from the life of the departed?

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A tomb was intended to be a dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body.

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Which of the following is not an example of how Egyptians “knew what they were doing”?

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How they pumped water into ditches as a primitive plumbing system

41
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Which three languages are found on the Rosetta Stone?

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Ancient Greek, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and another Egyptian dialect were found on the Rosetta Stone.

42
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Who ruled Egypt in 3100 BC?

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King Menes

43
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How long did Ancient Egypt’s empire last?

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Nearly 3000 years

44
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Which pharaoh attempted to change Ancient Egypt’s culture?

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Akhenaton

45
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Which is not related to Akhenaton?

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He invested time in the gods and the culture’s mysterious rituals.

46
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Where was the Jewish Civilization located in ancient times?

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Between Egypt and Mesopotamia

47
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The Jewish people were first conquered and ruled by the __________, and then the __________ would invade.

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Egyptians, Babylonians

48
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Complete the Sentiment: The Ancient Jewish God “was he who raged furiously against them in the storm, but he never __________.”

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Abandoned his people

49
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When did Menes rule over Egypt?

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3100 BC 5100 years ago

50
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Why did Ancient Egyptians put in food and furniture and clothes in the tombs and create paintings on the walls from the life of the departed?

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A tomb was intended to be a dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body.

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