Chapter 5

Question 1

What is the second largest continent?

Answer 1

Africa

Question 2

What connects Africa to Asia?

Answer 2

Isthmus of Suez

Question 3

What is the world’s largest desert

Answer 3

Sahara desert

Question 4

What is the world’s longest river

Answer 4

Nile

Question 5

What is the most ancient name for Egypt

Answer 5

Mizraim

Question 6

What does the Bible call Egypt?

Answer 6

The land of Ham

Question 7

Name for ancient Egyptians

Answer 7

Copts

Question 8

Because of its cultural diffusion, what is Egypt called

Answer 8

“The seabed of African cultures”

Question 9

Because of its rich and fertile soil, what did the ancient Egyptians call their land?

Answer 9

Kemet meaning “black”

Question 10

What were the small states that Egypt consisted of?

Answer 10

Nomes

Question 11

What were the strong rulers of Egypt called

Answer 11

Pharaohs

Question 12

How does the Nile River flow

Answer 12

From south to north

Question 13

What were he two nomes in Egypt

Answer 13

Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt

Question 14

Who United Lower and Upper Egypt?

Answer 14

Menes

Question 15

Who became the first pharaoh of all Egypt?

Answer 15

Menes

Question 16

When was the Egypt the greatest and most magnificent power of of the ancient world?

Answer 16

At the time of the Exodus of the Hebrews

Question 17

Who called Egypt “the gift of the Nile”?

Answer 17

Herodotus

Question 18

Rich alluvial plain of fertile soil formed by the Nile

Answer 18

Nile Delta

Question 19

Language of ancient Egypt that has about 700 characters

Answer 19

Hieroglyphics

Question 20

A book of prayers and incantations which was placed in tombs to protect the spirits of the dead in Egypt

Answer 20

Book of the Dead

Question 21

What was the most important Egyptian work

Answer 21

Book of the Dead

Question 22

What were the two most important Egyptian capital cities

Answer 22

Memphis and Thebes

Question 23

Word meaning “city of the dead”

Answer 23

Necropolis

Question 24

Broken slab of black basalt fount by Napoleon and his men near the town or Rosetta

Answer 24

Rosetta Stone

Question 25

Which languages was the Rosetta Stone written in

Answer 25

Hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek

Question 26

Frenchmen that was one of the people that deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone

Answer 26

Champollion

Question 27

Structure that best symbolizes the Egyptian conception of state and society

Answer 27

Pyramid

Question 28

Who was at the bottom of the pyramid?

Answer 28

The masses

Question 29

Which class of people was at the sides of the pyramid?

Answer 29

The priests and officials of pharaoh

Question 30

How were the Egyptians in their religious faith?

Answer 30

Humanists Naturalists Polytheistic

Question 31

“Houses of eternity”

Answer 31

Great Pyramid of Cheops

Question 32

A teenage Pharaoh who died at the age of 18

Answer 32

Tutankhamen

Question 33

The preservation of the bodies of the dead

Answer 33

Mummification

Question 34

What best symbolized the social order in Egypt

Answer 34

The pyramid

Question 35

What was the most important thing for boys to study in Egypt

Answer 35

Reading and writing

Question 36

Ancient Egyptian history is usually divided into how many dynasties?

Answer 36

30 dynasties

Question 37

During what time did the Egyptians achieve their greatest accomplishments in art and architecture?

Answer 37

The Old Kingdom

Question 38

Who were the three outstanding monarchs of the Old Kingdom?

Answer 38

Khufu (Cheops) Khafre Menkaure

Question 39

What did Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure build?

Answer 39

The three largest pyramids at Giza

Question 40

A sculpture with the head of a man and the body of a lion

Answer 40

The Great Sphinx

Question 41

Which pharaoh does the Great Sphinx depict

Answer 41

Khafre

Question 42

Who paved the way of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Twelfth Dynasty

Answer 42

King Mentuhotep I

Question 43

What is the biblical theory about the Middle Kingdom of Egypt

Answer 43

Some people think that it was during the Eleventh or early Twelfth Dynasty that Abram and his family entered Egypt in search of food

Question 44

Asiatic warriors that ravaged Egypt and brought the Middle Kingdom to an end

Answer 44

Hyksos

Question 45

Word meaning ‘shepherd kings’ or ‘rulers of foreign countries’

Answer 45

Hyksos

Question 46

Theban prince who founded the New Kingdom

Answer 46

Ahmose I

Question 47

What did Ahmose I do to the Hebrews? Why?

Answer 47

He oppressed and persecuted them because they were Semites like the Hyksos

Question 48

Who might have been Moses’s foster mother?

Answer 48

Hatshepsut

Question 49

a female pharaoh that ruled jointly with her nephew Thutmose III for about 20 years

Answer 49

Hatshepsut

Question 50

What is another name for the New Kingdom?

Answer 50

Egyptian Empire

Question 51

Pharaoh that extended Egypt’s borders to their farthest extent and brought the Egyptian empire to its greatest height

Answer 51

Thutmose III

Question 52

Son of Thutmose III who may behave been pharaoh during the Hebrew exodus

Answer 52

Amenhotep II

Question 53

Who was the most outstanding monarch of the Last New Kingdom?

Answer 53

Ramses II

Question 54

What became the most important city in Alexander’s empire

Answer 54

Alexandria

Question 55

It was in what city the ……… Testament was translated into the …….. language

Answer 55

Alexandria; Old Testament; Greek language

Question 56

Who gained control of Egypt after Alexander the Great’s death? What dynasty did he establish?

Answer 56

Ptolemy; Hellenistic (Greek) dynasty

Question 57

Name for the Greek Old Testament

Answer 57

Septuagint

Question 58

The Great Pyramid of Giza represents which three pharaohs

Answer 58

Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure

Question 59

What are the four Kingdoms of Egypt

Answer 59

The Old Kingdom The Middle Kingdom The New Kingdom The Last New Kingdom