After Test Textbook Questions

1.

• Lower Egypt includes the Nile delta region. The delta begins about 100 miles before the Nile river enters the Meditteranean Sea.
• Narmer was a king of Egypt around 3000 B.C. who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
• Egyptian god-kings were called pharaohs, and they were thought to be almost as splendid and powerful as the gods of the heavens.
• Theocracy is the type of government in which rule is based on religious authority.
• The kings of the Old Kingdom were laid to rest after death in great structures called pyramids.
• Mummification is a preservation process used for preserving Royal and Egyptian elites that involves embalming and drying the body to keep it from decaying. 
• Hieroglyphics were an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas, words, and sounds.
• Papyrus is a tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paper-like material to write on. 

3. Being surrounded by deserts provided a sort of security for Egypt and made it difficult for conquered by any other empires.

4. The Egyptians treated their pharaoh with the same respect and adoration that they would have treated any of their other gods.

5. Mummification was performed to keep the body of an important official from decaying. The Egyptians also believed that if they mummified people, those people would be immortal in the afterlife.