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1.Egypt, Kush, Canaan
2.Egypt, Kush, Canaan
3.Egypt, Kush, Canaan
4.Egypt, Kush, Canaan
5.Egypt, Kush, Canaan
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Water, topology, and vegetation
What are 3 environmental factors considered when settling land?
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In northeast Africa, first settled around 3100 CE.
What is Egypt?
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Long channel of very salty body of water to the east of Kush and Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
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Reeds and the tough water plant papyrus.
What 2 types of useful plants were plentiful in the Nile River Valley?
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Water.
What is the key environmental factor in Canaan?
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Water
What is the most important environmental factor?
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The world's longest river, which flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile river ?
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The most important environmental factor for settling by the Nile River.
What is a source of fresh water in a desert area?
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Land NE of Egypt settled by the Israelites from 1800 BCE to 70 BCE.
What is Canaan?
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The Mediterranean Sea.
What is the body of water that enabled traders to visit Canaan from many foreign lands?
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The surface features of a place or region, including mountains, valleys, streams, lakes.
What is topography?
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An ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 350 B.C.E.
What is Kush?
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Every summer the river overflowed its banks to irrigate and deposit silt that was perfect for farming.
How was the Nile River Valley naturally irrigated and kept fertile?
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River in SW Asia that flows from the Lebanon Mountains south through the Sea of Galilee into the Dead Sea.
What is the Jordan River?
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The Jordan River.
What was the main source for water in Canaan?
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Flat plains and valleys are used for planting crops.
What type of topography is best, and why?
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Nile river, fertile valley, deserts, Mediterranean sea
What are the physical features of Egypt and Kush?
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Fish, ducks, geese, hippos, crocodiles, giraffes, and ostriches
What are the 7 animals that were abundant in the Nile region?
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Jordan river flowed through the ________ of Canaan.
What is middle?
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No, it did not flood as often.
Was the Jordan as fertile as the Nile?
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Food, Useful products, provided shade
How did vegetation influence human settlements?
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Formed natural barriers that protected the people of Egypt and Kush.
What are the Libyan and Nubian deserts
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Wide flat areas around the river bends.
What about the topography of the Nile River Valley encouraged settlement?
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What desert in Canaan receives more moisture than most deserts?
What is the Negev Desert?
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The Sea of Galilee.
What other body of water in Canaan was an important source of fresh water?