Ancient Egypt Quiz

Each summer, the ____________ would overflow and the rich soil it deposited on the fields would produce four crops a year.

• Nile

• Euphrates

• Tigris

• Red Sea

Egypt was partially protected by

• the Dead Sea

• the pyramids

• natural boundaries

• an army

A person living about 500 B.C. would consider his own times as

• ancient

• modern

• prehistoric

• medieval

NOT characteristic of farming in ancient Egypt was

• irrigation

• the use of artificial fertilizer

• slave labor

• cultivation of wheat and barley

The Rosetta Stone was

• a symbol of the Pharaoh’s authority

• the keystone in the Great Pyramid at Giza

• an island in the Nile delta

• the key to translating hieroglyphics

___________ kept 100,000 men toiling over 20 years to build the famous Great Pyramid at Giza.

• Khufu

• Ramses II

• Tutankhamun

• Cleopatra

The Egyptians devised the first calendar that divided the year into 365 days.

• True

• False

Egyptians believed they could enter heaven if their heart was as light as a feather.

• True

• False

Rameses II united Upper and Lower Egypt and became the first Pharaoh.

• True

• False

A belief in one god is called _____________________.

• monotheism

• polytheism

• atheism

• agnosticism