Environmental Factors
Three reasons people settled near water.
What is a source of food, transportation, drinking, bathing, and irrigation for crops?
This gave Egypt and Kush protection from invaders.
What are the Libyan and Nubian deserts?
Were believed to be gods.
What is Pharaohs?
The plants of a place or region.
What is vegetation?
Techniques used by archaeologists in the early 1900s to study artifacts.
What is remove the bandages?
Early settlements were settled by __________ because it was good for trading with others.
What is water?
The flooding of this left silt that improved the soil.
What is the Nile River?
Believed to be a cruel leader. Kept strict control over Egypt's food supply and declared himself a god. Built the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
The shape and elevation of surface features, such as mountains or deserts, of a place or region.
What is topography?
The business of buying and selling or exchanging goods.
What is trade?
Farmers preferred to settle on this type of land because it gave them room for planting crops.
What are plains and valleys?
These were useful vegetation along the Nile River.
What are reeds and papyrus?
Strong ruler who governed a stable, unified Egypt. Built and improved religious buildings, including the White Chapel.
Who is Senusret?
The longest river in the world, flowing through eastern Africa to a delta in northeastern Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
A river in southwestern Asia that flows from the Lebanon Mountains, south through the Sea of Galilee, into the Dead Sea.
What is the Jordan River?
Baskets, tools, medicine, rope, and paper. These things were useful products made from___________.
What is vegetation?
Settlers could not drink the water from this body of water in Ancient Egypt and Kush.
What is the Mediterranean Sea? What is the the Red Sea?
Egypts first female ruler. Known for promoting trade with other countries. Art and architecture flourished.
Who is Hatshepsut?
A society along the Nile River, south of Egypt, from about 2000 B.C.E. to 350 B.C.E.
What is Ancient Kush?
The Nile River valley was good for growing these crops.
What is wheat and barley?
The Dead Sea was not a suitable source of water. This was due to______________.
What is salt?
The Nile River delta environment was _____________.
What is marshy?
Best known for military leadership and building numerous monuments. Built the temple at Abu'Simbel. Created the first peace treaty with Hittites.
Who is Ramses II?
A land northeast of Egypt, settled by the ancient Israelites, from about 1800 B.C.E to 70 C.E.
What is Ancient Canaan?
This body of water had so much salt, that no plants could grow there.
What is the Dead Sea?