Egyptian History and Civilization

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Egypt with the correct year: Controlled by Britain in the late 19th century, it became a republic in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Narmer with the correct year: In ______, Günter Dreyer discovered a "year label" of Narmer at Abydos, depicting the same event that is depicted on the Narmer Palette.
  3. Complete the sentence about Khufu with the correct year: The only completely preserved portrait of the king is a small ivory figurine found in a temple ruin of a later period at Abydos in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Khufu with the correct year: In ______, the tomb of queen Hetepheres I was found east of Khufu's pyramid.
  5. Complete the sentence about Akhenaten with the correct year: Furthermore, in ______ a mummy that could be Akhenaten's was unearthed from the tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings by Edward R.
  6. Complete the sentence about Tutankhamun with the correct year: Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in ______ by excavators led by Howard Carter and his patron, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon.
  7. Complete the sentence about Battle of Kadesh with the correct year: After expelling the Hyksos' 15th Dynasty around ______ BC, the rulers of the New Kingdom of Egypt became more aggressive in reclaimi…
  8. Complete the sentence about Rosetta Stone with the correct year: When the British defeated the French, they took the stone to London under the terms of the Capitulation of Alexandria in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Rosetta Stone with the correct year: Since ______, it has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously and it is the most visited object there.
  10. Complete the sentence about Rosetta Stone with the correct year: Study of the decree was already underway when the first complete translation of the Greek text was published in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Jean-François Champollion with the correct year: Towards the end of March ______, Jean-François left Figeac for Grenoble, which he reached on 27 March, and where Jacques-Jo…
  12. Complete the sentence about Howard Carter with the correct year: In ______, he worked under the tutelage of Flinders Petrie for one season at Amarna, the capital founded by the pharaoh Akhenaten.
  13. Complete the sentence about Howard Carter with the correct year: In early ______, Carter began searching the Valley of the Kings on his own.
  14. Complete the sentence about Howard Carter with the correct year: In ______, after a dispute with local people over tomb thefts, he was transferred to the Inspectorate of Lower Egypt.
  15. Complete the sentence about Howard Carter with the correct year: In ______, Carter began work for Lord Carnarvon, who employed him to supervise the excavation of nobles' tombs in Deir el-Bahari, near…
  16. Complete the sentence about Book of the Dead with the correct year: Wallis Budge, as described in his autobiography By Nile and Tigris in ______ and was taken to the British Museum, where it remains.
  17. Complete the sentence about Book of the Dead with the correct year: The Book of the Dead first developed in Thebes toward the beginning of the Second Intermediate Period, around ______ BC.
  18. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: Saladin was sent to Fatimid Egypt in ______, alongside his uncle Shirkuh, a Kurdish mercenary commander in service of the Zengid dynasty, on…
  19. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: After Shawar was assassinated and Shirkuh died in ______, al-Adid appointed Saladin as vizier.
  20. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: Not long after Nur ad-Din died in ______, Saladin launched his conquest of Syria, peacefully entering Damascus at the request of its governor…
  21. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: By ______, Saladin had completed the conquest of Syria after capturing Aleppo but failed to take over the Zengid stronghold of Mosul.
  22. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: Saladin died in Damascus in ______, having given away much of his personal wealth to his subjects; he is buried in a mausoleum adjacent to th…
  23. Complete the sentence about Ayyubid dynasty with the correct year: Most of the Crusader states fell to Saladin after his victory at the Battle of Hattin in ______, but the Crusaders reconquered the Sy…
  24. Complete the sentence about Ayyubid dynasty with the correct year: After his death in ______, as-Salih Ayyub was succeeded in Egypt by his son al-Mu'azzam Turanshah.
  25. Complete the sentence about Ayyubid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, the Mongols sacked Aleppo and conquered the Ayyubids' remaining territories soon after.
  26. Complete the sentence about Ayyubid dynasty with the correct year: The Mamluks, who expelled the Mongols, maintained the Ayyubid principality of Hama until deposing its last ruler in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ayyubid dynasty with the correct year: The "Kurds" refer to the Ayyubids while the "Turks" refer to the Mamluks who succeeded them in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Mamluk Sultanate with the correct year: The Mamluks under Sultan Qutuz and Baybars routed the Mongols in ______, halting their southward expansion.
  29. Complete the sentence about Mamluk Sultanate with the correct year: In ______, Louis IX of France captured Damietta during the Seventh Crusade.
  30. Complete the sentence about Baybars with the correct year: After securing the loyalty of Ayyubid emirs, he launched extensive campaigns against the Crusader states, culminating in the capture of Antio…
  31. Complete the sentence about Baybars with the correct year: In ______, he launched an expedition into Nubia that concluded with the subjugation of Makuria.
  32. Complete the sentence about Baybars with the correct year: In ______, al-Bunduqārī was arrested and the sultan of Egypt, As-Salih Ayyub, confiscated his slaves, including Baybars.
  33. Complete the sentence about Baybars with the correct year: In ______, he supported the defeat of the Seventh Crusade of Louis IX of France in two major battles.
  34. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Egypt with the correct year: Ottoman Egypt was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire after the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Egypt with the correct year: As such, Egypt remained semi-autonomous under the Mamluks until Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces invaded in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Egypt with the correct year: The Ottoman sultan granted Egypt the status of an autonomous vassal state or Khedivate in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Egypt with the correct year: After the conquest of Egypt in ______, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I left the country.
  38. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Egypt with the correct year: In ______, a conflict broke out between the army and the pasha, who had loyal regiments on his side and the Bedouins.
  39. Complete the sentence about Napoleon with the correct year: In November ______ Napoleon engineered the Coup of 18 Brumaire against the French Directory and became First Consul of the Republic.
  40. Complete the sentence about Napoleon with the correct year: In December ______ Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French, further consolidating his power.
  41. Complete the sentence about Napoleon with the correct year: The breakdown of the Treaty of Amiens led to the War of the Third Coalition by ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about French campaign in Egypt and Syria with the correct year: Recognising the strategic situation and political opportunities in France, Napoleon left Egypt in August ______, r…
  43. Complete the sentence about French campaign in Egypt and Syria with the correct year: The French were ultimately defeated by British-Ottoman forces and surrendered in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Pyramids with the correct year: After landing in Ottoman-controlled Egypt and capturing Alexandria on 2 July ______, the French army under General Bonaparte m…
  45. Complete the sentence about Battle of the Nile with the correct year: The legend of the battle has remained prominent in the popular consciousness, with perhaps the best-known representation being Fel…
  46. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Ali of Egypt with the correct year: In ______, Ali waged war against the sultan, capturing Syria, crossing into Anatolia and directly threatening Constantinople, b…
  47. Complete the sentence about Isma'il Pasha with the correct year: After the death of Sa'id, Isma'il was proclaimed Khedive on 19 January ______, though the Ottoman Empire and the other Great Powers rec…
  48. Complete the sentence about Isma'il Pasha with the correct year: One of his most significant achievements was to establish an assembly of delegates in November ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Khedivate of Egypt with the correct year: Among the major projects of this era was the completion of the Suez Canal, which opened in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Khedivate of Egypt with the correct year: The revolution was suppressed when the British invaded and took control of Egypt in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Khedivate of Egypt with the correct year: In ______, the formal connection to the Ottoman Empire was ended and Britain unilaterally established a protectorate called the Su…
  52. Complete the sentence about Khedivate of Egypt with the correct year: Ottoman Egypt was invaded by the French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Khedivate of Egypt with the correct year: The French army in the region was later defeated and surrendered in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Khedivate of Egypt with the correct year: During this time, he eliminated other factions that competed for power in Egypt, most notably with the massacre of the Mamluks in…
  55. Complete the sentence about Urabi revolt with the correct year: Tension built over the summer of ______ as both the Khedive and the Egyptian officers, now led by ʻUrabi, searched for supporters and ga…
  56. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Egyptian War with the correct year: In January ______ the British and French governments sent a "Joint Note" to the Egyptian government, declaring their recognition o…
  57. Complete the sentence about Anglo-Egyptian War with the correct year: The engineer troops had left England for Egypt in July and August ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about British occupation of Egypt with the correct year: The ruling khedive, Abbas II, was deposed and his successor, Hussein Kamel, compelled to declare himself Sultan of Egypt…
  59. Complete the sentence about British occupation of Egypt with the correct year: After the war, Egypt sought to modify the treaty, but it was abrogated in its entirety by an anti-British government in O…
  60. Complete the sentence about British occupation of Egypt with the correct year: The British agreed with Nasser to withdraw their troops, and by June ______ had done so.
  61. Complete the sentence about Sultanate of Egypt with the correct year: In September ______, Egypt made the first moves toward the formation of a wafd, or delegation, to voice its demands for independen…
  62. Complete the sentence about Sultanate of Egypt with the correct year: The next day, they were deported to Malta, an action that sparked the popular uprising of March/April ______ in which Egyptians of…
  63. Complete the sentence about Sultanate of Egypt with the correct year: The women's march of 16 March preceded by one day the largest demonstration of the ______ revolution.
  64. Complete the sentence about Saad Zaghlul with the correct year: In ______, he became politically active, as the founding leader of the Wafd Party, for which he was later arrested.
  65. Complete the sentence about Saad Zaghlul with the correct year: Britain had occupied the country in ______, and declared it a protectorate at the outbreak of the First World War.
  66. Complete the sentence about Saad Zaghlul with the correct year: Zaghloul's absence caused disturbances in Egypt, ultimately leading to the Egyptian Revolution of ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Wafd Party with the correct year: The actual party began taking shape during World War I and was founded in November ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about 1919 Egyptian Revolution with the correct year: Ottoman influence continued to be nominal at best after the ______ Anglo-Egyptian War and the subsequent British occupation…
  69. Complete the sentence with the correct year: King Fuad died in ______, and the throne passed to his 16-year-old son, Farouk.
  70. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Egypt with the correct year: In ______ the monarchy was abolished, and Egypt became a republic.
  71. Complete the sentence about Kingdom of Egypt with the correct year: Ottoman sovereignty over Egypt, which had been hardly more than a legal fiction since ______, now was officially terminated.
  72. Complete the sentence about King Farouk with the correct year: Farouk was born at Abdeen Palace in Cairo on 11 February ______ as His Sultanic Highness Farouk bin Fuad, Hereditary Prince of Egypt and…
  73. Complete the sentence about Egyptian Revolution of 1952 with the correct year: From ______, Egypt underwent a period of rapid modernisation under Muhammad Ali Pasha, who declared himself Khedive in de…
  74. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Naguib with the correct year: Mohamed Naguib was born on 19 February ______ in Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, to Youssef Naguib and a Zohra Ahmed Othman.
  75. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Naguib with the correct year: Naguib attended secondary and military schools at Gordon Memorial College in Khartoum, graduating in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Naguib with the correct year: In ______, Naguib became the first Egyptian military officer to obtain a law license.
  77. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Naguib with the correct year: In December ______, Naguib was promoted to the rank of captain.
  78. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Naguib with the correct year: Naguib tendered his resignation in protest following the ______ Abdeen Palace incident.
  79. Complete the sentence about Gamal Abdel Nasser with the correct year: Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of ______ and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year.
  80. Complete the sentence about Gamal Abdel Nasser with the correct year: In ______, Nasser began a series of major socialist measures and modernization reforms in Egypt.
  81. Complete the sentence about Gamal Abdel Nasser with the correct year: Following Egypt's defeat by Israel in the Six-Day War of ______, Nasser resigned, but he returned to office after popular demonstr…
  82. Complete the sentence about Gamal Abdel Nasser with the correct year: After the conclusion of the ______ Arab League summit, Nasser suffered a heart attack and died.
  83. Complete the sentence about Anwar Sadat with the correct year: Anwar Sadat was born on 25 December ______ in Mit Abu El Kom, part of Monufia Governorate in what was then the Sultanate of Egypt, to a p…
  84. Complete the sentence about Anwar Sadat with the correct year: One of his brothers, Atef Sadat, later became a pilot and was killed in action in ______ during the Yom Kippur War.
  85. Complete the sentence about Hosni Mubarak with the correct year: Under United States pressure, Mubarak held the country's first multi-party election in ______, which he won.
  86. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Morsi with the correct year: Following the Egyptian Revolution of ______, which resulted in Mubarak's resignation, Morsi came to the forefront as head of the Freedo…
  87. Complete the sentence about Abdel Fattah el-Sisi with the correct year: Sisi was born in the Gamaleya neighbourhood of Historic Cairo on 19 November ______ to Said Hussein Khalil al-Sisi and Soad Ibra…
  88. Complete the sentence about Abdel Fattah el-Sisi with the correct year: In ______, he attended the Egyptian Command and Staff College.
  89. Complete the sentence about Egyptian revolution of 2011 with the correct year: On 3 July ______, Morsi was deposed by the minister of defence, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, as millions of Egyptians to…
  90. Complete the sentence about Egyptian revolution of 2011 with the correct year: Hosni Mubarak became President of Egypt after the assassination of Anwar Sadat in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Arab League with the correct year: Furthermore, the signing of an agreement on Joint Defence and Economic Cooperation on 13 April ______ committed the signatories to coordi…
  92. Complete the sentence about African Union with the correct year: The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September ______, calling for the establishment of the African Unio…
  93. Complete the sentence about African Union with the correct year: The bloc was launched on 9 July ______ in Durban, South Africa.
  94. Complete the sentence about African Union with the correct year: The historical foundations of the African Union originated in the First Congress of Independent African States, held in Accra, Ghana fr…
  95. Complete the sentence about Organisation of Islamic Cooperation with the correct year: On 25 September ______, representatives of 24 Muslim majority countries met in Rabat, Morocco.
  96. Complete the sentence about Organisation of Islamic Cooperation with the correct year: In March ______, the First Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  97. Complete the sentence about Organisation of Islamic Cooperation with the correct year: In ______, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference was founded.
  98. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Egypt with the correct year: In ______, he hosted the Sharm El-Sheikh "Summit of the Peacemakers" attended by President Bill Clinton and other world le…
  99. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Egypt with the correct year: Another summit was convened in Sharm El Sheik in early ______, which was attended by Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Author…
  100. Complete the sentence about Egypt–United States relations with the correct year: Egypt and the United States formally began relations in ______ after Egypt gained nominal independence from the United…

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