Egyptian Test

Question 1

What is a Cataract?

Answer 1

A Cataract is a mini-waterfall with fast moving water.

Question 2

What is a Delta?

Answer 2

A Delta is where a river meets with a larger body of water.

Question 3

What is Silt?

Answer 3

Silt is rock and dirt carried by a river.

Question 4

What is “Kemet”?

Answer 4

“Kemet” is what the Ancient Egyptians called their land. This translates as “black land”

Question 5

What is “ the Red Land”?

Answer 5

“Red Land” is what the Ancient Egyptians called the land outside of their empire. This was mainly desert.

Question 6

What is Absolute Power?

Answer 6

Absolute Power is when a ruler has total control over a government and empire/country.

Question 7

What is the Divine Right?

Answer 7

Divine Right is when a ruler proclaims that they hame been given the power to rule by their God(s).

Question 8

What is “Vizier”?

Answer 8

A “Vizier” is the second in-command to the Pharaoh.

Question 9

What is a Dynasty?

Answer 9

A Dynasty is a family that rules over a country/empire for a certain time period.

Question 10

What are the “Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms”?

Answer 10

The “Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms” are certain time periods in Ancient Egypt divided up by the 31 dynasties.

Question 11

What are Hieroglyphics?

Answer 11

Hieroglyphics is the written language used in Ancient Egypt.

Question 12

What is the importance of the Nile River to Egypt?

Answer 12

The importance is that without the Nile River, there would be no Egypt.

Question 13

Who is Amon-Re?

Answer 13

Amon-Re was the Egyptian god of the Sun.

Question 14

Who is Anubis?

Answer 14

Anubis is the Egyptian god of Mummification.

Question 15

Who is Osiris?

Answer 15

Osiris is the Egyptian god of the dead.

Question 16

What do the Crook and Flail represent?

Answer 16

The Crook and Flail represent “royal power”.

Question 17

What does the Ankh represent?

Answer 17

The Ankh represents “eternal life”.

Question 18

What was the purpose of Mummification?

Answer 18

The purpose of Mummification, is to hopefully guide the person’s spirit to The Afterlife.

Question 19

What was The Afterlife?

Answer 19

The Afterlife was a place in the Egyptian Underworld, where all of the spirits would party all day and night, and never die again.

Question 20

What are the Organs that were important to the Ancient Egyptians?

Answer 20

The Organs that were important to the Ancient Egyptians were the Heart.

Question 21

What are Canopic Jars?

Answer 21

Canopic Jars are jars that hold organs from Egyptian corpses.

Question 22

What are Pyramids?

Answer 22

Pyramids are large triangle-shaped structures built to house the mummies of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.

Question 23

What is the Red Crown?

Answer 23

The Red Crown is a crown worn only in Lower Nubia, to show the Pharaoh’s power.

Question 24

What is the White Crown?

Answer 24

The White Crown is a crown worn only in Upper Nubia to show the Pharaoh’s power.

Question 25

What is the Double Crown?

Answer 25

The Double Crown is a crown worn in BOTH Upper and Lower Nubia to show the Pharaoh’s power.

Question 26

What is the importance of the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 26

The importance of the Rosetta Stone, is that Egyptian hieroglyphics could be translated into the Greek alphabet. From there, the Greek could be translated to English. This now meant that the Ancient Egyptains hieroglyphics could be translated into English.