Egypt Quiz Flashcards
The textbook refers to Egyptian civilization as “a more cohesive___” than those that developed in Mesopotamia.
state
Herodotus referred to Egypt as the gift of the ___
Nile
Michael Wood observes that in contrast to Mesopotamian civilizations, the predictable floods of the Nile River made Egyptians and ___ people.
optomistic
The “great house” that and Egyptian king was buried in became known as a ___
pyramid
The Egyptians were polytheistic, which mean they worshiped many
gods
The book that preserved Egyptian’s ideas about death and the afterlife is the Book of the ___
Dead
Egyptians invented a style of ___ with character call hieroglyphs.
writing
One of the themes of Egyptian civilization is an emphasis on a cult of the ___
dead
M. Stanton Evans argues that the style of government found in Egyptian civilization was a ___ because the king (pharaoh) was believed to have gotten his/ her power to rule from the God or gods.
theocracy
Archaeological research is now being used to contend that ___ built the pyramids themselves - instead of a lost civilization.
Egyptians
Archaeological research has revealed that the workers who built the pyramids lived together in a village of around 25,000 people, suggesting that the Egyptians had created the world’s first ___ city.
industrialized
Archaeological research that enables us to understand what the daily life of those who built the pyramids was like is referred to as ___ history, rather political or military history..
social
