Gift of the Nile
This river is recognized as the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This region sits at the top part of the map nearest to the Mediterranean Sea and is at a lower elevation
What is Lower Egypt?
Ancient Egyptians developed a 365-day calendar made of days, weeks, months, and seasons.
What is a calendar?
Successful agricultural practices and irrigation directly led to this result regarding food supply.
What is producing an abundance of food?
This body of water borders Egypt directly to the east
What is the Red Sea?
This vast, barren desert surrounds the fertile green oasis created by the Nile River
What is the Sahara Desert?
Located at the bottom part of the map, this region sits at a higher land elevation than the northern part.
What is Upper Egypt?
Egyptian farmers used this bucket-and-lever device to pull water up from the river
What is a shadoof?
Because not everyone was needed for farming due to food abundance, people began to specialize in producing these items.
What are crafts and tools?
This landform connects Egypt to the northeast between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
When the Nile River flooded each year, it deposited this rich material across the river valley to help crops grow.
What is fertile silt?
Because of elevation differences, the current of the Nile River flows in this directional path
What is north (or south to north)?
Tracking seasons with a calendar allowed farmers to know the perfect times for these two key crop activities.
What are planting and harvesting?
As trade flourished along the Nile River, these powerful human settlements developed along the riverbanks.
What are cities?
This body of water sits to the northeast of the Sinai Peninsula near the top right of the map.
What is the Dead Sea?
Because it made transportation and movement easy between cities, the Nile River served as one of these for trade
What is a "superhighway"?
This large, fan-shaped fertile region in Lower Egypt is formed where the river splits before reaching the sea.
What is the Nile Delta?
Egyptian farmers created innovative irrigation systems primarily so they could achieve this goal with their farmland.
What is expanding the area where they could farm?
This major ancient capital city shown on the map was located in Lower Egypt near the apex of the Nile Delta.
What is Memphis?
This body of water is located west of the Nile River in Lower Egypt, near Memphis.
What is Lake Moeris?
These features marked on the Nile River map represent shallow, rocky river rapids along the river's course.
What are cataracts?
Lower Egypt sits at a lower elevation compared to Upper Egypt because the land slopes down toward this major body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Besides expanding farmland and watering crops, irrigation helped farmers manage this natural water event.
What is controlling flooding?
This ancient settlement was located at the far southern border of Upper Egypt near the river cataracts.
What is Elephantine?
Name two of the ancient settlements located in Upper Egypt between Memphis and Elephantine.
What are Thebes and Nekhen?