Gr. 7 Egypt quizz
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- What was summer like in Mesopotamia?
- hot, drought-like
- Describe the summers in Egypt.
- hot, dry, drought-like
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Which of these is a characteristic of a civilization:
hunting
weapons
specialized jobs - specialized jobs
- The library at Ninevah had books written on__________
- stone
- Cuneiform was used by these people.....
- ancient Mesopotamians
- Cuneiform is writng with wedge-shaped pages (T or F)
- False
- This was the the ruler of Uruk...
- Gilgamesh
- The name for a Sumerian pyramid.....
- ziggurat
- He ordered his laws to be written on a stone pillar...
- Hammurabi
- Define silt....
- fine particles of fertile soil deposited after a flood.
- He discovered the tomb of King Tut...
- Howard Carter
- This helped scholars figure out the meaning of hieroglyphics
- Rosetta Stone
- This was the Egyptian guide to the afterlife...
- Book of the Dead
- David replace this man as king of Israel....
- Saul
- Responsible for building a great temple in Jerusalem...
- Solomon
- Led the Israelites out of Egypt...
- Moses
- Describe the characterisitcs of a civilization....
- could be an essay question
- Describe the steps in the development of writing....
- could be another essay question
- Explain how the Nile River was important to Ancient Egypt....
- another essay possibility
- What is papyrus and how was it used by Ancient Egypt...
- maybe an essay
- Which Egyptian leader wore the fake beard?
- Hatshepsut
- Who found the Rosetta Stone?
- Jean-Francois Champollion
- Which is further north, Upper Egypt or Lower Egypt?
- Lower
- Which sea border Egypt on the north and which sea on the east?
- Med. Sea and Red Sea
- The best known of all the pharaohs...
- Tut
- Papyrus grows along the banks of....
- the Nile River
- Who had the slingshot, David, Goliath, Bob
- David
- What shape is a delta?
- triangular