Test Your Knowledge About Ancient Egyptian Civilization! Quiz
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During the Old Stone Age, how did people get their food?
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Hunting and Gathering
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Going to Mr. King's House
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Trading
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Herding animals
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What is the major difference between the Old Stone age and the New Stone age?
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Importance of oral stories
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The exploration of the New World
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Hunting alone
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The beginning of farming
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A. The beginning of farming -
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Why did the ancient Egyptian civilization begin on the banks of the Nile River?
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Egyptians loved to swim
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Fish are easy to catch if you are a mummy
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Regular flooding resulted in rich soil for farming
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This was their homeland and the place they loved
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A. Regular flooding resulted in rich soil for farming -
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Mesopotamia was located on the land between
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The Nile and Euphrates Rivers
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The Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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Red sea and Nile River
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Nile and Tigris Rivers
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A. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers -
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Which was the 1st Written set of laws?
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Mr. Matti's classroom rules
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The 10 commandments
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Hammurabi's code
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The Ziggurat
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A. Hammurabi's code -
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Characteristics that civilizations share are
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Government, language, and specialized jobs
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Good soil, farms, and smal families
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Fresh water, irrigation and schools
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Trading and nomadic citizens
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A. Government, language, and specialized jobs -
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Having a surplus of food was a factor that led to...
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A rise in nomadic life
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Rise of the small farmer
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Ms Goulette's love of animals
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Rapid population growth
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A. Rapid population growth -
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One important advantage of the Phoenician alphabet was
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It was only for scribes
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All learned to read and write with symbols
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It used only 1,000 symbols
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It was easier than Cuneiform
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A. It was easier than Cuneiform -
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Why did the Phoenicians become a wealthy sea power?
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Scaring competitors with tales of ocean monsters
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Conquering the Persians
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Defeating enemies using the battering ram
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Trading purple dye and cedar wood
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A. Trading purple dye and cedar wood -
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Egyptian Pharaohs governed their empire
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With the help of governors elected by citizens
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By maintaining absolute power over the people
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By establishing a democracy
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By asking Ms. Goulette and Mrs. Lint for help
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A. By maintaining absolute power over the people -
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In ancient Egypt, a very important religious practice was to
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Prepare the dead for the afterlife
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Worship the pharaoh's children
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Worship one god
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Travel to the Nile river for a swim
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A. Prepare the dead for the afterlife -
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Where did the writing first develop?
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Sumer
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Assyria
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Phoenicia
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Canaan
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A. Sumer -
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