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| 4610176721 | The first clear view of an after-world in the ancient world came from | Egypt | 0 | |
| 4610176722 | By around ______ B.C.E. peoples of the eastern Sudan started to domesticate cattle and became nomadic herders | 9000 | 1 | |
| 4610176723 | The early Sudanic societies recognized a single divine force as the source of good and evil, and they associated it with | rain | 2 | |
| 4610176724 | Do to a climate shift the Sahara desert, which had been cool and well watered, became increasingly arid and uninhabitable around | 5000 B.C.E. | 3 | |
| 4610176725 | The Greek historian Herodotus used the phrase "the gift of the ______" to describe Egypt | Nile | 4 | |
| 4610176726 | In regards to political organization, Egypt | was much more organized than Mesopotamia | 5 | |
| 4610176727 | Egypt was united around 3100 B.C.E. by the conqueror | Menes | 6 | |
| 4610176728 | Egyptians associated the early pharaohs with | Horus | 7 | |
| 4610176729 | The largest Egyptian pyramids were built during the | Old Kingdom | 8 | |
| 4610176730 | ______ is the largest of all the pyramids | Khufu | 9 | |
| 4610176731 | During the third millennium the Egyptians traded with the Nubian kingdom of | Kush | 10 | |
| 4610176732 | The capital of the kingdom of Kush was | Kerma | 11 | |
| 4610176733 | Harkhuf was | an Egyptian explorer who visited Nubia | 12 | |
| 4610176734 | Pharaohs in the Middle Kingdom were | less powerful than pharaohs of the Old Kingdom | 13 | |
| 4610176735 | The pharaoh Neferkare was most excited to see ______ brought back from Nubia by the explorer Harkhuf | the dancing dwarf | 14 | |
| 4610176736 | the Hyksos were | external invaders who helped bring about the end of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom | 15 | |
| 4610176737 | Horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons were introduced into Egypt by the | Hyksos | 16 | |
| 4610176738 | The most vigorous of all New Kingdom pharaohs was ______, who led his troops into Palestine and Syria and who even received tribute from the Mesopotamian city-states | Tuthmosis III | 17 | |
| 4610176739 | The Egyptians were the most imperialistic during the | New Kingdom | 18 | |
| 4610176740 | During the eighth century B.C.E. Egypt fell under the control of the ______ for around a century | Kushites | 19 | |
| 4610176741 | Around 760 B.C.E. the Kushite King Kashta | founded a dynasty that ruled Egypt for around a hundred years | 20 | |
| 4610176742 | In the mid-seventh century B.C.E. Egypt lost its independence and became a part of | the Assyrian empire | 21 | |
| 4610176743 | The conqueror Menes founded ______ around 3100 B.C.E., a city that would serve as the capital for early Egypt | Memphis | 22 | |
| 4610176744 | Hatshepsut was | the first woman to rule Egypt as pharaoh | 23 | |
| 4610176745 | In which of the following societies did women enjoy the most freedom and opportunity | Egypt | 24 | |
| 4610176746 | In Kush | there is evidence for many female rulers | 25 | |
| 4610176747 | A kandake was | a female regent in Kush | 26 | |
| 4610176748 | In Africa, iron metallurgy | arose independently | 27 | |
| 4610176749 | The Egyptians traded through the Red Sea with a land they called Punt, which is probably | modern-day Somalia | 28 | |
| 4610176750 | The Greek words meaning "holy inscriptions" refers to | hieroglyphics | 29 | |
| 4610176751 | The Egyptian work, "The Satire of the Trades," | reflected a scribe's desire for his son to become a scribe himself and avoid other unpleasant jobs | 30 | |
| 4610176752 | Meroitic writing | was a Nubian script that borrowed Egyptian hieroglyphics | 31 | |
| 4610176753 | The cult of Amon-Re | was a combination of the Egyptian air and sun gods | 32 | |
| 4610176754 | The cult of Amon-Re is the best example of | how the Egyptians associated various gods with each other | 33 | |
| 4610176755 | What Pharaoh tried, unsuccessfully, to transform Egypt into a monotheistic society | Akhenaton | 34 | |
| 4610176756 | Besides the Hebrews, the only other example of monotheism from the ancient world occurred during the reign of | Akhenaton | 35 | |
| 4610176757 | The line, "O Sole God beside whom there is none! You made the earth as you wished," is drawn from | the Great Hymn to Aten | 36 | |
| 4610176758 | The Egyptian god of the underworld was | Osiris | 37 | |
| 4610176759 | Osiris judged whether or not souls were worthy for immortality by | weighing their hearts against a feather symbolizing justice | 38 | |
| 4610176760 | During the Old Kingdom | only the pharaohs received the honor of mummification | 39 | |
| 4610176761 | The Bantu originally came from around | Modern day Nigeria | 40 | |
| 4610176762 | The tribes which, beginning as early as 3000 B.C.E., began to spread their language and agriculture techniques throughout Africa were the | Bantu | 41 | |
| 4610176763 | In relation to spreading their language across a huge stretch of Africa the Bantu played a role similar to that played by the | Indo-Europians | 42 | |
| 4610176764 | The Bantu probably began their migrations because of | population pressures | 43 | |
| 4610176765 | By the middle of the first millenium B.C.E. the Bantu people had begun to produce | iron | 44 | |
| 4610176766 | Egyptian explorer who visited Nubia | Harkhuf | 45 | |
| 4610176767 | Nubian kingdom | Kush | 46 | |
| 4610176768 | Nubian female regent | Kandake | 47 | |
| 4610176769 | later Kushite king who conquered and ruled Egypt | Kashta | 48 | |
| 4610176770 | Tribes that spread their language across Africa | Bantu | 49 | |
| 4610176771 | First woman to rule Egypt | Hatshepsut | 50 | |
| 4610176772 | Semitic peoples who introduced horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons into Egypt | Hyksos | 51 | |
| 4610176773 | Pharaoh who attempted, unsuccessfully, to promote monotheism | Akhenaton | 52 | |
| 4610176774 | Egyptian god of the underworld | Osiris | 53 | |
| 4610176775 | powerful New Kingdom warrior pharaoh | Tuthmosis III | 54 | |
| 4610176776 | Inspiration for a massive temple at Heliopolis | Amon-Re | 55 | |
| 4610176777 | The largest pyramid | Khufu | 56 |
