Water, Water, Everywhere
This was the most important environmental factor for early human settlement.
What is water?
This word means the shape and elevation of the land.
What is Topography?
This term means all the plant life in an area.
What is vegetation?
The Egyptians and Kushites both settled near this river.
What is the Nile River?
This river ran through the center of Canaan.
What is the Jordan River?
Early people settled near rivers because they provided these two key things.
What is fresh water & fertile land for farming?
Farmers preferred to live in these types of areas because they were flat and fertile.
What are plains and valleys?
Name two ways early people used plants besides food.
What is making tools, baskets, rope, paper, or medicine?
This kind of land in the Nile Valley made it ideal for farming.
What is fertile soil?
Because much of Canaan was too dry or hilly, many Israelites became these instead of farmers.
What are herders or nomads?
Each year, this natural event helped Egyptian farmers grow crops along the Nile.
What is flooding of the Nile River?
These landforms were hard to cross, cold, and rocky—making farming difficult.
What are mountains?
Egyptians made paper from this tough water plant.
What is papyrus?
These two deserts bordered Egypt and Kush on the east and west.
What is Kush on the east and west.the Nubian Desert and the Libyan Desert?
This body of water bordered Canaan to the west and supported trade.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Farmers dug these to bring river water to their crops.
What are canals or trenches?
The deserts around Egypt provided this important benefit.
What is natural protection from invaders?
These two things usually increase the amount of vegetation in an area.
What is mild climate and fresh water?
These two useful plants grew along the Nile and were used for everyday items.
What are reeds and papyrus?
The Phoenicians were known for being skilled in this type of work.
What is trading and sailing?
Even though people couldn’t drink from it, this body of water allowed trade and fishing for Egyptians.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This desert lies to the west of the Nile River.
What is The Libyan Desert?
This type of environment had very little vegetation because of extreme heat and dryness.
What are deserts?
After the Nile flooded, this fine material was left behind, helping crops grow.
What is silt?
This famous Phoenician invention influenced the Greek and Roman writing systems.
What is the alphabet?