Unit 2 Ancient Egypt Test

a high level of cultural development

• pharaoh

• architecture

• civilization

people in ancient times who kept records

• pharaoh

• scribes

• government

a country that controls many lands and the people who live in these lands

• empire

• pyramid

• civilization

referring to life in the city

• embalming

• civilization

• urban

an economic system based on trade

• embalming

• barter

• urban

the science of designing buildings

• architecture

• pyramid

• urban

an ancient Egyptian system of writing in which a picture or symbol stands for a word

• hieroglyphics

• scribes

• papyrus

a plant growing along the Nile River from which Egyptians made a form of paper

• papyrus

• scribes

• hieroglyphics

The governments of the early civilizations can be described as

• very weak

• very powerful

• democratic

Most of the people who lived during the early civilizations were

• millionaires

• chariot dealers

• very poor