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How do we call this type of farming?

1. Water agriculture
2. Irrigation
3. Slave agriculture
4. Sahara farming

Why were the pyramids built when the Nile was flooded (overstroomd) ?

1. It was not so hot in that period of the year
2. The wet sand made it easier to move the stones
3. Because the hippos were gone to the south during the floods
4. Farmers couldn't work on their farms, and were used to build the pyramids

Why were the hieroglyphs invented?

1. To write down the stories of the gods
2. So you could write a diary (= dagboek)
3. To write down important rules about farming and taxes
4. To write a letter to your aunt in Thebes

Egypt was a  hierarchical society. Put the following groups in order from most powerful to the least 

Most powerful

Least powerful

1

2

3

4

5

Farmers

Pharaoh

Civil servants

Slaves

Priests

Put the following steps from the start of the first cities in the correct order

1

2

3

4

5

People start specialising

Canals and dikes are dug around the farms

This new type of farming results in an agricultural surplus

Trading between the different crafts

More and more people start living together

Egypt was a polytheistic society.
What does polytheistic mean?

1. People believed in more than one god
2. People drank different kinds of tea
3. People had to work together very often
4. Slavery was very common

The gods in which the Egyptian believed were often related to nature. Why?

1. The Egyptians loved walking in the nature
2. Life was impossible without the sun or the Nile floodings
3. Because the Egyptians couldn't think of other gods

What is Anubis weighing here?

1. Grain
2. Pancake flour
3. Water
4. A heart