Mesopotamia
Egypt
Mesopotamia Floods
Egypt Floods
Misc. Information
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The fertile crescent or the land between two rivers
What is another name for Mesopotamia?
100
Egypt receives less than ten inches of rain per year, is extremely hot and dry, and beyond the banks of the Nile River is hot, dry sand.
What is a desert?
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Fall and Spring
What are the two Mesopotamian seasons?
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Akhet, Peret, Shemu
What are the names of the Egypt flooding seasons?
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Barley, wheat, lentils, dates, chickpeas, turnips, peas, garlic, and spice plants.
What are Mesopotamian foods?
200
A fine soil that is nutrient-rich.
What is silt?
200
The only significant source of water. Runs 4,000 miles long. The live-giving source for the Ancient Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
200
At this time, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flooded, but it was also the time when crops were ready to be harvested.
What is the Mesopotamian spring season?
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Egypt's autumn season. Flood water receded and left behind a layer of silt. Farmers planted and grew their crops. It took place during October through mid-February.
What is Peret (The Growing Season)?
200
Wheat, barley, figs, melons, flax, cabbage, beans, plums
What are crops the Egyptians used to farm?
300
Semiarid climate
Mesopotamia experiences very hot summers with very little rainfall. What is this type of climate called?
300
The river would pick up soil and plant life, and when the Nile flooded, it left a layer on the flood plain, which made for good farming.
What is silt?
300
At this time, Mesopotamian farmers needed water to plant and grow new crops, but this is when the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were at its lowest point.
What is the fall season?
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-The third and final season of the year. -Crops were harvested and removed before the Nile flooded again. -Canals were repaired and prepared for the upcoming flood. -Mid February to the end of May.
What is Shemu (The Harvesting Season)?
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-Cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, ducks, and oxen were raised by farmers for their meat, milk, and hides. These animals also helped with farming.
What are animals the Egyptians used to farm?
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Canal Systems, Digging Ditches.
What is an irrigation system Mesopotamians developed?
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Made of mud and bricks to trap and hold water. This water was used to replenish the water in the canal after it was used up.
What are water reserviors?
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Mesopotamians needed to develop a way for their crops to be watered in the fall (when the rivers were low) and a way to protect their harvest in the spring (when the rivers would swell and flood).
What are irrigation systems?
400
-The time of the flood. -No farming was done at this time because the fields were flooded. -Farmers worked on building pyramids. -June through September.
What is Akhet (The Flooding Season)?
400
Sheep, cattle, goats were raised for their hide, meat, and milk.
What are animals Mesopotamians raised?
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Flood gates
What is an irrigation system that holds back water?
500
This was an ancient water-raising system. There was a long wooden pole with a bucket at one end. People were able to raise water in the bucket and dump it out.
What is the shaduf?
500
The floods came at the wrong time for farmers, and often, anytime between April, May, and June. Farmers couldn't predict the size of the flood-sometimes, there was too much river water, which destroyed crops, and other times, there was too little river water, which meant difficulties growing crops.
What is an unpredictable flooding season?
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-The Nile flooded annually, and the Egyptians knew exactly when it would flood. -The floods worked well with the Egyptian farming schedule. -The Nilometer helped the Egyptians determine how heavy (or not) the floods would be.
What is a predictable flooding season?
500
Built in the 1970's, but prevents the Nile from flooding today. The energy from the Nile generates enough power to supply 15% of Egypt's overall electricity.
What is the Aswan Dam?
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