Vocab
A waterfall or rapids in a river.
Cataracts
Two rivers that made up the Nile
Blue Nile and White Nile
The _______ of central Africa and the _________ of Eastern Africa added water into the Nile.
heavy rains and melting snow
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Empire
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Boy
area of silt where a river flows into a sea
delta
The "creator of all good"
The Nile
Farmers would plant:
wheat, barley, flax seeds
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Thebes
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Egypt
Egyptian Writing system
hieroglyphics
The Nile river flows:
North
Farmers used what to measure their fields?
Geometry
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Pyramid
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Shadoof
reed plant used to make paper
Papyrus
The Nile borders which two largest deserts in the world:
Libyan and Eastern
Egyptians harvested this to use as paper.
papyrus
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Embalm
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Desert
used to transfer river water into storage basins
shadoof
The Ancient Egyptians called these lands the:
Red Lands
Egypt was made up of two larger kingdoms:
Upper and Lower Egypt
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Geometry
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Pharaoh