Nile River
The continent that the Nile River is located on.
What is Africa?
The most important physical feature in ancient Egypt and Kush.
What is the Nile River?
The wet, fertile plains of Canaan bordered the _______________.
What is Mediterranean Sea?
This physical feature was vital to ancient settlers.
What is water?
The plants of a place or region.
What are vegetation?
What are Egypt and Kush?
The description of the Nile delta.
What is a marsh?
What was "dead" about the Dead Sea?
It was too salty for any form of life.
Yearly flooding of the Nile River left this behind, which improved the soil.
What is silt?
The shape and elevation of surface features, such as mountains or deserts, of a place or region.
What is topography?
The direction that the Nile River flows.
What is South to North?
The desert provided this for ancient Egypt and Kush.
What is protection?
The Jordan River was different from the Nile River because of this.
What is it did not flood regularly?
Settlers used the Mediterranean Sea for ___________.
What is catching fish?
The river that flows from the Lebanon Mountains, south through the Sea of Galilee, into the Dead Sea.
What is the Jordan River?
The Nile River empties into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Useful vegetation along the Nile included _____________.
What are reeds and papyrus?
The part of Canaan with the most vegetation was near this.
What is the Jordan River?
This was part of the topography of ancient Egypt.
What is desert?
A land northeast of Egypt, settled by the ancient Israelites, from about 1800 to 70 C.E.
What is Canaan?
The two deserts that border the Nile River.
What are the Libyan Desert and Nubian Desert?
The Kushites settled _________________ of Egypt.
What is South?
This best describes herders in Canaan.
What are nomads?
Farmers preferred to settle in these areas.
What are flat, open areas such as plains and valleys?
A society along the Nile River, south of Egypt, from about 200 B.C.E. to 350 C.E.
What is Kush?