Ancient Egypt Test

The man who united Upper and Lower Egypt and became Egypt’s first Pharaoh was _____________________________.

• Menes
• Sphinx
• Mummification
• Sarcophagus
• Pyramids

The ________________________________________________ is considered to be Egypt’s Golden Age.

• Middle Kingdom
• Sphinx
• Mummification
• Sarcophagus
• Menes

The ____________________________ were built as tombs for the Pharaoh.

• Pyramids
• Sphinx
• Mummification
• Sarcophagus
• Menes

The preservation of a dead body for use in the afterlife is called ______________________________________.

• Mummification
• Sphinx
• Sarcophagus
• Menes
• Pyramids

The 2nd Pyramid is guarded by the Great _______________________.

• Sphinx
• Mummification
• Sarcophagus
• Menes
• Pyramids

Once mummified, the pharaoh’s body was placed into an Egyptian coffin called a ______________________________.

• Sarcophagus
• Sphinx
• Mummification
• Menes
• Pyramids

The Pyramid Age of ancient Egypt is the

• a. Old Kingdom
• b. Middle Kingdom
• c. New Kingdom

The Egyptian writing system is called

• a. Cuneiform
• b. Hieroglyphics
• c. Language

What did we discover about the pyramids?

• a. They display an expertise in math that we could replicate today only with our technology, and some of them we can’t replicate at all! t
• b. They used a type of math we have never heard of before
• c. The way the pyramids are build defies known mathematics and it appears it must be aliens who build them

The writers and record keepers of ancient Egypt were called

• a. Secretaries
• b. Scribes
• c. Clerks