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Natural Resources and there uses.
The Nile River.
Miscellaneous Facts
Egyptian trade
100
Name at least one type of precious metal found in ancient Egypt.
What is Copper, gold, and silver.
100
What was the Nile's main use. (duh)
What is water.
100
What does the word barter mean?
What is trade without using money.
100
What are precious metals the Egyptians traded with
What is gold and silver
200
What were papyrus reeds used for in ancient Egypt?
What is For making paper.
200
How did the Nile provide a means for the Egyptians to transport?
what is the use of boats.
200
Name three examples of crops grown in Ancient Egypt.
What is Grains, beans, barley, wheat, and corn.
200
Why would the Egyptians trade natron(salt)? Hint:NOt food flavoring!
What is for the mummification of their family members.
300
Name a use of Natron (salt) BESIDES food flavoring.
What is For mummification.
300
By what means did the Nile help people grow crops? (be specific)
What is irrigation.
300
Define irrigation.
What is the watering of dry lands (crops) through the use of nearby steams, rivers, and lakes- taking water from one area to another.
300
Why would the Egyptians barter mummified animals?
What is honoring the gods and goddesses that the animals represented.
400
Name three uses for Alabaster in ancient Egypt.
What is For furniture, decoration, and building.
400
BESIDES transportation and growing crops, name 5 ways the people used the Nile.
What is Bathing, cleaning, fishing, recreation, drinking water, or cooking.
400
Explain how silt helped the ancient Egyptians.
What is a natural fertilizer and helped their crops grow well by the way of the flooding of the Nile river..
400
Name three things that the Egyptians needed to obtain in order to mummify there family members
What is canopic jars, natron,linen, and an ointment.
500
In ancient Egypt, what was the main use of the stone Jasper?
What is For making bow drills.
500
How did the Nile unite the people of Egypt?
What is the only water source in the desert region. all the people had to live close to it to survive, therefore uniting them together.
500
How did a surplus help the Ancient Egyptians?
what is a means to trade or barter for other items that they didn't have such as timber for building homes.
500
Name a semi precious stone the Egyptians bartered with?
What is turquoise and jasper