Ancient Egypt

Question 1

Where is Egypt located?

Answer 1

Northeast corner of Africa

Question 2

What desert is Egypt surrounded by?

Answer 2

Sahara Desert

Question 3

Egypt is settled along what river?

Answer 3

The Nile River

Question 4

What is the longest river in the world?

Answer 4

The Nile River

Question 5

What two kingdoms is Egypt divided into?

Answer 5

Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt

Question 6

What direction does the Nile River flow?

Answer 6

North to South

Question 7

What body of water does the Nile River empty into?

Answer 7

Mediterranean Sea

Question 8

Who was the first King of Eqypt?

Answer 8

Menes

Question 9

In Egypt, the Sahara Desert is known as the _______ _______.

Answer 9

Red Land

Question 10

How much rain does the Sahara desert average per year?

Answer 10

5 to 10 inches of rain a year

Question 11

What s the area around the Nile River called?

Answer 11

Kemet or the Black Land

Question 12

When does the Nile River flood?

Answer 12

At or around July 15th (which is in the summer)

Question 13

The water from the river carried what?

Answer 13

Silt

Question 14

What is in silt?

Answer 14

Clay, bits of black soil, rocks and minerals

Question 15

What is a marshy area of land shaped like a triangle?

Answer 15

Delta

Question 16

When were crops planted in Egypt?

Answer 16

October

Question 17

What was the most important crop in ancient Egypt?

Answer 17

wheat (it was needed to bread and feed cattle)

Question 18

What vegetables did farmers grow in ancient Egypt?

Answer 18

onions, garlic and beans

Question 19

What fruits did farmers grow in ancient Egypt?

Answer 19

figs, dates, grapes and pomegranates

Question 20

What did some farmers in ancient Egypt grow to make linen?

Answer 20

flax

Question 21

Besides farming, what other jobs did people of Egypt do?

Answer 21

Potters, priests and scribes

Question 22

What is land that receives very little rainfall and contains very little plant and animal life?

Answer 22

desert

Question 23

The civilization of ancient Egypt made up nearly 600 miles of land along the northern _______ ______ _____.

Answer 23

Nile River Valler

Question 24

_______ is to supply with water, using such methods as building storage pools and dams.

Answer 24

irrigation

Question 25

_______ is directing water from the source to an area where there is no water

Answer 25

Irrigating

Question 26

Which floodwaters feed into the Nile River?

Answer 26

mountain snow that would melt and flow into the river

Question 27

What do Egyptians call the Sahara Desert?

Answer 27

The Red Land

Question 28

What were the two MOST important uses of wheat in Egypt?

Answer 28

making bread and making food for cattle

Question 29

What covers most of Egypt?

Answer 29

desert and sand (Sahara desert)

Question 30

What is Ancient Egypt’s most important crop?

Answer 30

wheat

Question 31

What is Egyptian writing called?

Answer 31

hieroglyphics

Question 32

What is hieroglyphics

Answer 32

simple pictures of what the writer was trying to say (pictograms)

Question 33

What are the two groups of hieroglyphics?

Answer 33

ideograms and phonograms

Question 34

What is an ideogram?

Answer 34

idea signs

Question 35

What is a phono gram?

Answer 35

sound sign

Question 36

What is the first writing paper?

Answer 36

papyrus

Question 37

What is a pith

Answer 37

popular food (inside papyrus plant) used to make paper

Question 38

What were the two newer style of Egyptian writing called?

Answer 38

hieratic and demotic

Question 39

Who is Napoleon I?

Answer 39

Emperor of France from 1801 to 1814

Question 40

What is the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 40

tablet found by a French officer when Napoleon I’s arm invaded Egypt

Question 41

Who deciphered the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 41

Jean Francois Champollion

Question 42

What was pith used to make?

Answer 42

mats, cloth, sandals and rope (household utensils and food)