Why did pharaohs have absolute power in Egypt?
A) Pharaohs ruled the country using terror.
B) Egyptians believed the pharaoh was a god in human form.
C) The kingdom was small enough for one man to exercise complete control.
D) Egyptians believed the pharaoh received instructions directly from the vizier.
2.
To keep the kingdom running smoothly and efficiently, who did the pharaoh have to assist him or her?
A) a council of elders
B) a congress of representatives
C) a group of servants
D) a bureaucracy
3.
The Egyptian civilization developed in the narrow band of fertile soil that stretched along
A) the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
B) the Mediterranean Sea
C) the Nile river
D) the Red Sea
4.
Ancient Egyptian legends claim that who united the two kingdoms of Egypt around 3100 B.C.?
A) Ramses the Great
B) Menes
C) Hatshepsut
D) Tut
5.
Most of the huge pyramids, built as tombs for Egypt’s rulers, were constructed during the period known as the
A) New Kingdom
B) Middle Kingdom
C) Old Kingdom
D) Last Kingdom
6.
Why did pharaohs of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom improve defenses along the Nile?
A) to protect trade routes
B) to defend against nobles form the Old Kingdom
C) to fight the Phoenicians
D) to restore stability to Egypt
7.
Egypt became monotheistic during the reign of
A) Menes
B) Tut
C) Hatshepsut
D) Akhenaten
8.
Due to his political achievements and artistic legacy, no other pharaoh is as remembered or admired as
A) Hatshepsut
B) Piankhi
C) Menes
D) Ramses
9.
Pharaohs of the New Kingdom could not rely on the desert to protect the area from invasions, so they
A) built walls around the kingdom
B) stationed guards in boats on the Nile
C) made peace treaties with surrounding kingdoms
D) created Egypt’s first permanent army
10.
Hatshepsut, one of the few women pharaohs of Egypt, ruled during which kingdom?
A) Old Kingdom
B) Middle Kingdom
C) New Kingdom
D) Last Kingdom
A) Pharaohs ruled the country using terror.
B) Egyptians believed the pharaoh was a god in human form.
C) The kingdom was small enough for one man to exercise complete control.
D) Egyptians believed the pharaoh received instructions directly from the vizier.
2.
To keep the kingdom running smoothly and efficiently, who did the pharaoh have to assist him or her?
A) a council of elders
B) a congress of representatives
C) a group of servants
D) a bureaucracy
3.
The Egyptian civilization developed in the narrow band of fertile soil that stretched along
A) the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
B) the Mediterranean Sea
C) the Nile river
D) the Red Sea
4.
Ancient Egyptian legends claim that who united the two kingdoms of Egypt around 3100 B.C.?
A) Ramses the Great
B) Menes
C) Hatshepsut
D) Tut
5.
Most of the huge pyramids, built as tombs for Egypt’s rulers, were constructed during the period known as the
A) New Kingdom
B) Middle Kingdom
C) Old Kingdom
D) Last Kingdom
6.
Why did pharaohs of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom improve defenses along the Nile?
A) to protect trade routes
B) to defend against nobles form the Old Kingdom
C) to fight the Phoenicians
D) to restore stability to Egypt
7.
Egypt became monotheistic during the reign of
A) Menes
B) Tut
C) Hatshepsut
D) Akhenaten
8.
Due to his political achievements and artistic legacy, no other pharaoh is as remembered or admired as
A) Hatshepsut
B) Piankhi
C) Menes
D) Ramses
9.
Pharaohs of the New Kingdom could not rely on the desert to protect the area from invasions, so they
A) built walls around the kingdom
B) stationed guards in boats on the Nile
C) made peace treaties with surrounding kingdoms
D) created Egypt’s first permanent army
10.
Hatshepsut, one of the few women pharaohs of Egypt, ruled during which kingdom?
A) Old Kingdom
B) Middle Kingdom
C) New Kingdom
D) Last Kingdom