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Answer the following questions:
 
1. Why is the river Nile extremely important in Egyptian Society?
2. Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids?
3. How do they mummify the dead? (process)
4. What are their beliefs in the afterlife?
5. Who is Tutankhamen? Why is he important in today's archeology?
6. What did Queen Cleopatra do that caused the destruction of Egypt?
7. What is the importance of the Rossetta Stone?
8. Why did the ancient Egyptians bury the latter pharaohs in the valley of the kings instead of making pyramids for them?
9. What are hieroglyphics important in the Egyptian Society?
10.  What are the skills needed by the Egyptians to build the pyramids?

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