Download CHAPTER 5 STUDY GUIDE (Answers in bold) How religion affected

CHAPTER 5 STUDY GUIDE
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1. How religion affected Egypt? Egyptians study the book of dead and they believed in after life
2. What Egyptians learned from embalming process? How to treat illnesses and set up broken bones
3. What organ was the first one Egyptians remove from the body and the one that was left inside the
body? Brain and heart
4. Akhenaton failure: was the pharaoh who lost most of its lands in western Asia to outside invader
5. The upper class in ancient Egypt was made up of priests and nobles.
6. What natural barriers does Egypt have? cataracts Sahara deserts
7. Menes Narmer: was the king who united upper and lower Egypt
8. The Sphinx is an ancient Egyptian ruin with the body of a lion and a human head
9. The Nile River is the longest river in the world. 4,000 miles long
10. A diagram of Egypt’s social classes has the shape of a Pyramid
11. Hyksos: Ruled Egypt for about 150 years and use chariots and iron weapons
12. Imhotep: Change the Egyptian religion to one God
13. Phoenicians: People who lived in the present-day country of Turkey
14. Shadoof: Bucket attached to a long pole that lifts water from the Nile
15. Ahmose: The king who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt
16. Tributes: it is the forced payments sent to the pharaoh by conquered peoples
17. Mummy: is an embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips is a
18. Dynasty: A line of rulers that passes power from father to son is a
19. The Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh’s body from decomposing was the act of embalming
20. Re or Ra: it is the chief god of the Egyptians
21. Who discover King Tut’s” tomb in 1922: Howard carter
22. Felucca: An ancient type of Egyptian river sailboat
23. Hapi: Goddess who ruled the Nile River
24. Isis: Ruled the underworld with her husband Osiris
25. Middle Kingdom: Golden age of prosperity, achievement, and stability in Egypt
26. How did Egyptians use papyrus for? Sandals and baskets Make paper
27. How did Egyptians call their system of writing? Hieroglyphics
28. Papyrus: Used in papermaking
29. Pharaoh: Believed to be the son of Re, the sun god
30. Sahara desert: it borders the Nile River
31. Thebes: Capital of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom
32. What type of religion Egyptians had? Polytheism
33. Who were the two unusual pharaohs? King Tut and Hatshepsut
34. Who was the pharaoh who expanded the territory by war? Thutmose III
35. What group took over Egyptians? Kush and Libyans Assyrians
36. Who was the pharaoh for whom the Great Pyramid was built? Khufu
37. In a ________, the ruler is both a political and religious leader
Theocracy
38. To learn how to obtain life after death, the Egyptians studies the Book of dead
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39. Why Egyptians built pyramids? To protect the pharaoh’s body
40. What did they Egyptians call the tombs when they used mud bricks? Mastabas
41. What is the meaning of the word Pharaohs? Great house
42. What is the God of dead? Anubis
43. The Great Pyramid: it is the tallest building in the world for 4,000 years
44. Memphis: Capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom
45. Ramses II: Pharoah who built the Karnak
46. What peninsula separates Asia from Africa? Sanai
47. With whom did Rameses II create the first peace treaty in history? Hittites
48. The Rosetta stone: was used by scholars to Translate hieroglyphics.
49. Which term best describes how the Egyptians thought of their pharaoh? god-king
50. The term Upper Egypt refers to the area between Lower Egypt and the First Cataract.
51. The skills that the Egyptians learned from the Hyksos included: how to wage war with horse-drawn
chariots, new techniques in spinning and weaving, how to irrigate land.
52. All of the following descriptions are true of Egyptian: polytheistic, it taught that a soul's life continued
after death, it gave much power to the priests.
53. Achievements of the ancient Egyptians included: a 365-day calendar. Medical techniques to treat
fractures and wounds. Advanced mathematical principles, including geometry.
54. Amenhotep: changed his name to Akhenaton.
55. The Egyptian god responsible for life, death, and rebirth was? Osiris.
56. Which Continent is Egypt located on? Africa
57. What was not one of the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt? Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New
Kingdom
58. For the most part, religion in Mesopotamia and Egypt can best be described as… Polytheistic
59. Which group took over the Middle Kingdom using chariots and bronze weapons? Hyksos
60. What are the major contribution of Egypt? First national government. Papyrus, calendar, irrigation,
writing system, first medical book
61. 58. How were the lives of Nubians different from those of the Egyptians? Nubian had savannas, a lot
of rain fall and Egypt had desert and little rainfall
62. Numbers are bodies Of Water, Letters are Cities and Civilizations
Mediterranean Sea
Nile River
63.
64.
Dead
Sea
Sahara
Memphis
Thebes
Red
sea
Nubia
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