Egypt review

Question 1

How did the areas around Egypt protect it?
From the North:
From the South:
From the East:
From the West:

Answer 1

North: Mediterranean Sea
South: Cataracts
East: Sahara Desert and the Red Sea
West: Sahara Desert

Question 2

What is the Nile Delta and where is it?

Answer 2

The delta is a fan-shaped feature where a river empties into another body of water.
The Nile Delta is in northern Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 3

Explain the flow of the Nile.

Answer 3

The Nile River flows from the south to the north because the elevation of the land is higher in the south and gravity makes the water flow north.

Question 4

What continent is Egypt on?
a. Asia
b. North America
c. Europe
d. Africa

Answer 4

Africa

Question 5

What is the highest ranking priest in all of Egypt?
a. the high priest
b. the Pharaoh
c. the vizier
d. Osiris

Answer 5

vizier

Question 6

An Egyptian pharaoh was considered to be:
a. ruler of the world
b. a scribe
c. a god
d. an artisan

Answer 6

a god

Question 7

What are the names of the 3 kingdoms?

Answer 7

Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom

Question 8

What is the largest social class in ancient Egypt?
a. peasants
b. scribes
c. artisans
d. priests

Answer 8

peasants

Question 9

What event made it possible for the ancient Egyptians to grow crops?
a. the plow
b. a heavy yearly rainfall
c. the Nile flooded its banks yearly
d. fertile soil

Answer 9

the Nile flooded its banks yearly

Question 10

Which season was not important to an Egyptian peasant?
a. fertilization season
flooding season
winter season
planting season

Answer 10

winter season

Question 11

How did the Nile River benefit Egyptians?
a. flooded other nation’s fields
b. provide natural irrigation, fresh water, and fertilization
c. helped Egyptians sail to other nations to trade
d. provided Egyptians with salt water to preserve fish

Answer 11

provide natural irrigation, fresh water, and fertilization

Question 12

Why is the Rosetta Stone so important?
a. It’s the only surviving artifact from ancient Egypt
b. It’s a letter from Rameses to the Romans
c. It made it possible to decipher hieroglyphics
d. It’s the oldest artifact ever discovered

Answer 12

It made it possible to decipher hieroglyphics

Question 13

Why did the ancient Egyptians mummify their dead?
a. They worshipped their relatives
b. it was the law
c. for health reasons
d. they believed you needed your body in the afterlife

Answer 13

They believed you needed your body in the afterlife.