WH Ch 5

Question 1

What is the home of the world’s largest desert

Answer 1

Egypt

Question 2

what is the world’s largest desert

Answer 2

sahara

Question 3

small states in early egyptain history

Answer 3

Nomes

Question 4

strong rulers of nomes

Answer 4

pharos

Question 5

United upper and lower egypt to rule as one pharoh

Answer 5

menes

Question 6

egypts main nickname

Answer 6

gift of the nile

Question 7

Longest river in the world

Answer 7

nile

Question 8

who gave egypt its nicknames

Answer 8

Herodotus

Question 9

what two things gave life/structure to egypt

Answer 9

water and papyrus palnts

Question 10

triangle shaped area of land in north egypt where most early settlements were found

Answer 10

nile delta

Question 11

written language of egypt

Answer 11

hieroglyphics

Question 12

used the rosette stone to interperate heiroglyphics

Answer 12

Jean Francis Champollion

Question 13

2 capitals of egypt

Answer 13

memphis and thebes

Question 14

Graduates of scribal schools in egypt could recieve what type of jobs

Answer 14

political or religous

Question 15

What three things did the egyptians believe in

Answer 15

Humanism,naturalism,and polytheism

Question 16

The Egyptians achieved their greatest accomplishments in art and architecture during what

Answer 16

Old kingdom

Question 17

The three outstanding monarchs of the Old Kingdom

Answer 17

Khufu (Cheops), Khafre, and Menkaure

Question 18

the head of a man and the body of a lion

Answer 18

Great Sphinx

Question 19

reunited the two lands and paved the way for the Middle Kingdom

Answer 19

King Mentuhotep I

Question 20

Asiatic warriors that ravaged egypt

Answer 20

Hyksos

Question 21

The prince who founded the New Kingdom

Answer 21

Ahmose I

Question 22

Moses’ foster mother

Answer 22

Hatshepsut

Question 23

ruled as pharaoh jointly with her nephew Thutmose III for about 20 years.

Answer 23

Hatshepsut

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Thutmose III

Question 25

may have been pharaoh during the Hebrew exodus

Answer 25

Amenhotep II

Question 26

most outstanding monarch

Answer 26

Ramses II

Question 27

became the most important city in Alexander’s empire

Answer 27

Alexandria

Question 28

gained control of Egypt and established a Hellenistic (Greek) dynasty that ruled until Cleopatra’s suicide and the Roman conquest in 30 B.C

Answer 28

Ptolemy

Question 29

became the center of Egyptian life and one of the great cities of the Arab world

Answer 29

Cario