Ancient Egypt Study Guide: Interesting Insights & Answers

Unit Test on Ancient Egypt Study Guide Answers

1. Because one physical feature was so vital to ancient settlers of Egypt, where did they decide to build their houses?

Next to the Nile River

2. How did the yearly flooding of the Nile River affect the people of Egypt?

Pros the floods brought rich soil in which to plant crops and the river was used to irrigate the crops Cons the floods could destroy crops, houses, and people would sometimes drown

3. List the names of two types of vegetation that were used in the creation of hieroglyphs

Papyrus - to make paper reeds to use as pens

4. Why is King Tut one of the most well- known pharaohs?

When his tomb was discovered his mummy and artifacts were still intact, giving archaeologists a lot of information about life during ancient Egypt

5. Why did the ancient Egyptians make mummies?

They made mummies to preserve their bodies to have a long afterlife

6. What was the major purpose for building the pyramids?

The pyramids were the tombs for the pharaohs who had died.

7. What was one method Khufu used to ensure that his power would be accepted?

He declared himself a god

8. It was built from more than 2 million stone blocks. It had tunnels inside. What was it?

The Great Pyramid

9. Senusret I controlled a source of natural resources that were used in beautiful works of art. What was the source? (Where did he get the gold and gems to make the jewelry and other items?)

From mines that he controlled

10. Which pharaoh did the following: A. built the great pyramid B. was the first woman pharaoh? C. loved the arts and had the White Chapel built? D. ruled for 67 years and made the world s first peace treaty?

A. Khufu B. Hatshepsut C. Senusret I D. Ramses II

11. Why are the social classes of Egypt shown in the form of a pyramid/triangle?

The social classes show the amount of power and people in each class. The person at the top was the one pharaoh and he had the most power. The peasants were at the bottom because they had no power and the population was mostly peasants.

12. Who built the giant temples of the pharaohs?

The peasants and farmers

13. What did the Egyptians put in the tombs of the people who died? Why?

They put their mummy, food, gold, furniture, their pets, games, jewelry, clothes, and anything they might need in their afterlife.

14. How did archaeologists figure out what the hieroglyphs meant?

The Rosetta Stone was the key to decoding hieroglyphs.

15. Why did it take many years to become a scribe?

It took many years to become a scribe bc there were over 700 hieroglyphs to learn and memorize

16. What did the Egyptians write on? What was it?

They wrote on papyrus which was a type of plant

17. Rank the order of the social classes from most important to least important.

Pharaoh Government officials, priests, nobles Scribes Merchants and artisans Peasants, farmers, and slaves

18A. What kinds of things did the artisans make?

They made stone pottery, statues, jewelry, dinner ware, tools, weapons, sarcophagus, furniture, musical instruments, decorated tombs

18B. Why do archaeologists study these objects today?

These items give clues about what life was like in ancient Egypt

19. For a community to be considered a civilization, it needs to have the following seven characteristics:

1. government 2. stable food supply 3. religion 4. social structure 5. culture and arts 6. technology 7. written language

20. Into which characteristics does each of the following examples fit? 1. sacrcophagus 2. calendar 3. hieroglyphs 4. artisans 5. pharoah

1. religion, art 2. technology 3.writing, art 4. social class, art, technology 5. government, social class

Vocabulary 1. social class- group in a society that is ranked by factors such as wealth, property, and rights. 2. afterlife an existence after death 3. embalm a method that preserved bodies from decay.

Vocabulary 4. treaty a written agreement by which two or more states agree to peaceful relations 5. peasant a person who does farm work for wealthy landowners