Bodies of Water
Rivers
Deserts
Physiographic Features
Miscellaneous
100
The longest river in Africa.
What is The Nile?
100
The direction that the Nile River flows.
What is northward?
100
A desert that lies in modern Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea.
What is the Arabian Desert?
100
A chain of mountains located in the southern part of modern Turkey.
What is The Taurus Mountains?
100
A desert that helped protect Egypt and Nubia from foreign attacks.
What is the Sahara Desert?
200
An ocean that lies east of Africa.
What is the Indian Ocean?
200
A large body of water that separates Africa from Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
A desert that lies mostly south of Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea.
What is the Nubian Desert?
200
A triangular area, bordered by water on three sides, and connects the continents of Africa and Asia.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
200
Farming along this river was ideal because each summer its riverbanks flooded and deposited a rich layer of sediment.
What is the Nile River?
300
A body of water that lies between the Arabian Peninsula and modern Iran.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
This river flows southeast across modern Iraq near the city of Baghdad.
What is the Tigris River?
300
A desert that lies west of the Euphrates River and north of the Arabian Penninsula.
What is the Syrian Desert?
300
The northernmost region of the Nile River, which is roughly shaped like a triangle.
What is the Nile Delta?
300
The year when settled farming communities began to appear in Egypt and Nubia.
What is 5000 B.C.E.?
400
A sea south of the Sinai Peninsula that is linked to the Indian Ocean.
What is the Red Sea?
400
This river is located southwest of the Tigris River and flows southeast to the Persian Gulf.
What is the Euphrates River?
400
A desert located between the Sinai Peninsula and the Dead Sea.
What is the Negev Desert?
400
A large body of land bordered on the northeast by the Persian Gulf, on the southeast by the Indian Ocean, and on the west by the Red Sea.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
400
The name the ancient Egyptians gave to their land because of the dark soil left by the Nile's floods.
What is "black land" or Kemet?
500
A body of water that is fed by the Jordan River and lies south of the Sea of Galilee.
What is the Dead Sea?
500
A river that flows through the Sea of Galilee and into the Dead Sea.
What is the Jordan River?
500
A desert that lies west of the Nile River and covers parts of modern Egypt, Libya and Sudan.
What is the Libyan Desert?
500
A mountain range located east of the Tigris River in the southwestern part of Iran.
What is the Zagros Mountains?
500
Located on the Mesopotamian plain, close to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. It was made up of several city-states.
What is Sumer or the Sumerian City-States?
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