Short Answers and Review Questions

Here are the short answer questions. I will also be posting review questions in the comment section. Students who answer correctly may get a prize.

6A

1. Explain how the Egyptians took advantage of the flooding of the Nile River.

2. What was the importance of the body for and how did it affect the passage to the afterlife?

3. How are farmers important to everyone in Egypt?

4. How is the Rosetta Stone important to the study of ancient Egypt?

5. What did Hatshepsut do to make herself known? Why did Hatshepsut portray herself as a man rather than a woman? And why, 20 years after her death did Thutmose III try to erase the history of Hatshepsut as pharaoh?


6B

1. Why is it that in Mesopotamia cities developed faster?

2. What role does the Rosetta Stone play in the study of ancient Egypt?

3. Why did the Egyptians have an easier time farming than the Mesopotamians?

4. The Egyptians believed in the afterlife. What did they need to do in order to move to the afterlife?

5. Why did Thutmose III try to destroy Hatshepsut’s record of being king?