Ra (Sun god)
A person who moves from place to place with no permanent home. [7.4]
What is a Nomad?
The plant life of a place or region. [7.2]
What is Vegetation?
A tough water plant used to make paper and rope in ancient times. [7.3]
What is Papyrus?
The river that runs through central (middle) Canaan. [7.4]
What is the Jordan River?
The continent that Egypt and Kush are in. [Map pg 63]
What is Africa?
The physical features of an area. [7.1]
What is Geopgraphy?
An area of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river. [7.3]
What is a Delta?
The process of adding fertilizer, or plant food, to soil. [7.3]
What is Fertilization?
The freshwater inland lake in northern Canaan. [7.4]
What is the Sea of Galilee?
The extremely salty inland lake in southern Canaan. [7.4]
What is the Dead Sea?
A society of people (ancient Israelites) who lived to the northeast of Egypt, in Canaan, from about 1800 B.C.E. to 70 C.E. [7.1]
What is Hebrew Civilization?
The surface features of a place or region, such as mountains or deserts. [7.2]
What is Topography?
A society of people who lived in the northeast corner of Africa from around 3100 B.C.E. to 350 C.E. [7.1]
What is Egyptian Civilization?
Another name for Northern Egypt. [Turn your arm into the Nile]
What is Lower Egypt?
Another name for Southern Egypt. [Turn your arm into the Nile]
What is Upper Egypt?
The most important physical feature in Egypt and Kush. [7.3]
What is The Nile River?
A society of people who lived along the Nile, south of Egypt, from about 2000 B.C.E. to 350 C.E. [7.1]
What is Kush Civilization?
The water, topography (shape of the land), and vegetation (plant life) of an area or region. [7.1]
What are Environmental Factors?
The way water was used as "highways" by early human settlements. [7.2]
What is trade and/or transportation?
This desert receives (gets) more rain than most other deserts, especially in the winter. [7.4]
What is the Negev Desert?
This type of soil is perfect for farming. [7.3]
What is silt?
These people are nomads who raise livestock like cattle or sheep. [7.4]
Who are herders?
The direction that the Nile River flows. [7.3]
What is South to North?
Most of the land in Egypt is this type of physical feature. [7.3]
What are deserts?
This is where almost all human settlement was in ancient Egypt. [7.3]
What is along the Nile River?