Water, Water, Everywhere
Topography Trouble
Vegetation Nation
Egypt & Kush
Canaan & the Phoenicians
100

This was the most important environmental factor for early human settlement.

What is water?

100

This word means the shape and elevation of the land.

What is Topography?

100

This term means all the plant life in an area.

What is vegetation? 

100

The Egyptians and Kushites both settled near this river.

What is the Nile River? 

100

This river ran through the center of Canaan.

What is the Jordan River? 

200

Early people settled near rivers because they provided these two key things.

What is fresh water & fertile land for farming?

200

Farmers preferred to live in these types of areas because they were flat and fertile.

What are plains and valleys? 

200

Name two ways early people used plants besides food.

What is making tools, baskets, rope, paper, or medicine?

200

This kind of land in the Nile Valley made it ideal for farming.

What is fertile soil? 

200

Because much of Canaan was too dry or hilly, many Israelites became these instead of farmers.

What are herders or nomads?

300

Each year, this natural event helped Egyptian farmers grow crops along the Nile.

What is flooding of the Nile River?

300

These landforms were hard to cross, cold, and rocky—making farming difficult.

What are mountains? 

300

Egyptians made paper from this tough water plant.

What is papyrus? 

300

These two deserts bordered Egypt and Kush on the east and west.

What is Kush on the east and west.the Nubian Desert and the Libyan Desert? 

300

This body of water bordered Canaan to the west and supported trade.

What is the Mediterranean Sea? 

400

Farmers dug these to bring river water to their crops.

What are canals or trenches?

400

The deserts around Egypt provided this important benefit.

What is natural protection from invaders? 

400

These two things usually increase the amount of vegetation in an area.

What is mild climate and fresh water? 

400

These two useful plants grew along the Nile and were used for everyday items.

What are reeds and papyrus? 

400

The Phoenicians were known for being skilled in this type of work.

What is trading and sailing?

500

Even though people couldn’t drink from it, this body of water allowed trade and fishing for Egyptians.

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

500

This desert lies to the west of the Nile River.

What is The Libyan Desert?

500

This type of environment had very little vegetation because of extreme heat and dryness.

What are deserts? 

500

After the Nile flooded, this fine material was left behind, helping crops grow.

What is silt? 

500

This famous Phoenician invention influenced the Greek and Roman writing systems.

What is the alphabet?