Deck 3: Egypt and the Bronze Age 5000-1200 BCE

Question 1

The Nile delta is found in _______.

A)Nubia
B)Kush
C)Egypt
D)Upper Egypt

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What does the word "pharaoh" mean in Egyptian?

A)"Tallest Man"
B)"Supreme Ruler"
C)"God in Man"
D)House"

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following are among the early Egyptian cultures in the Nile delta?

A)Culture
B)Culture
C)Siwa Culture
D)Gazi Culture

Answer 3

A,B

Question 4

What is faience?

A)crushed quartz and copper pigments
B)The word used to denote the divine authority of the pharaoh
C)An irrigation technique pioneered in the Nile delta around 2500 BCE
D)The kind of stone on which Rosetta inscription is written

Question 5

Egyptians wrote on ______, which was made from a type of bulrush that grew along the Nile.

A)vellum
B)papyrus
C)cane
D)terra cotta

Question 6

What did the Egyptians call their land in their own language?

A)Ptah
B)Kemet
C)Saqqara
D)Ma'at

Question 7

Egyptian optimism was grounded in _______, a divinely mandated order, stability, and justice in the world.

A)Aton
B)Uraeus
C)Ma'at
D)Ra-amon

Question 8

Which of the following is generally regarded as the Golden Age of pyramid building?

A)Fourth Dynasty
B)The First Dynasty
C)The Tenth Dynasty
D)The Twelfth Dynasty

Question 9

Who was said to have been the last pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty, and the first woman to rule over Egypt?

A)Nefertiti
B)Nitocris
C)Cleopatra VII
D)Anck-su-namun

Question 10

Osiris' brother _______ suffocated Osiris and then chopped him into pieces, which he scattered around Egypt.

A)Atum
B)Anubis
C)Nut
D)Set

Question 11

What is the name of the collection of spells that was wrapped around a mummy?

A)"The Spells of Ra"
B)"The Tale of Sinuhe"
C)the Dead"
D)"Osiris Among the Shades"

Question 12

Egypt suffered the first foreign invasion in its history at the hands of the _______.

A)Hyksos
B)Neo-Babylonians
C)Romans
D)Assyrians

Question 13

In the New Kingdom, the pharaoh assumed what new role?

A)Supreme priest
B)leader
C)"Lord of the Living and the Dead"
D)"Brother of Ra"

Question 14

Which New Kingdom pharaoh created an Egyptian empire?

A)Ramses II
B)Tut-ankh-amon ("King Tut")
C)Akhenaton
D)III

Question 15

The pharaoh Amenhotep IV was especially devoted to which god?

A)Set
B)Osiris
C)Isis
D)Aton

Question 16

The revival of which empire occurred during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaton?

A)The Kassites
B)The Sumerians
C)Hittites
D)The Hurrians

Question 17

Which New Kingdom pharaoh is regarded as the greatest warrior pharaoh?

A)II
B)Akhenaton
C)Tut-anhk-amon ("King Tut")
D)Hatshepsut

Question 18

Which battle in 1274 BCE between the Egyptians and the Hittites was probably the greatest chariot battle of all time, and ended with both sides declaring victory?

A)The Battle of Thebes
B)The Battle of Megiddo
C)The Battle of Assur
D)of Kadesh

Question 19

The Egyptian empire expanded by laying claim to which two territories on this map?

A)Syria
B)Punt
C)Kush
D)Canaan

Question 20

What is the name of this structure?

A)ziggurat
B)pyramid
C)mastaba
D)akh