Defintions
Nile
Nile Part 2
Egypt land
Growth and trade
100
A massive monument of ancient Egypt having a rectangular base and four triangular faces culminating in a single apex, built over or around a crypt or tomb.
What is pyramid?
100
Worlds longest river.
What is the nile river?
100
Gave thanks to him for the flood
Who is Hopi?
100
Ancient Egyptians called their land this.
What is Kemet?
100
During this time they settled hunting and fishing communities started in Nubia, different from Fertile Crescent because the communities were not there because of farming.
When is 6000 BC?
200
A desert region and ancient kingdom in the Nile River valley of southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
What is Nubia?
200
These are its two main sources?
What is the blue nile and while nile?
200
The northern part of the empire the land was very wet and had many marshes; deserts were right beside the rich farmland on both sides of the Nile.
What is Lower Egypt?
200
It was the land beyond the fertile land, it was a vast desert.
What is the Red Land?
200
Started farming during this time.
When is 5000 BC?
300
A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.
What is silt?
300
These two rivers meet in this present day country.
What is Sudan?
300
Every spring the Nile would be filled with water from the highlands in East Africa and would bring a fertile sediment good for farming.
What is sediment?
300
Homes were built out of this.
What is bricks made of straw, mud and clay?
300
added fish to their diet and hunted ducks and other birds.
Who are the Nubians?
400
A waterfall in which a large volume of water flows over a steep precipice.
What is cataract?
400
Between the 3rd and 6th cataract it is located in this legion.
What is Upper Nubia?
400
In the south it is higher, in the north it is lower. That is why the Nile that comes from the south flows to the north.
Why was upper Egypt to the south and lower Egypt to the north?
400
Hard to attack because of this.
What is desert and lack of water around Egypt?
400
Caravans were loaded with these materials.
What is silver, gold, copper and fine pottery?
500
A tall, aquatic, Mediterranean sedge (Cyperus papyrus) having numerous drooping rays grouped in umbels. Also called Egyptian paper rush, paper plant.
What is papyrus?
500
This section of the nile contains 6 cataracts.
What is the Nubian section?
500
When the Nile reaches the Mediterranean Sea it spreads in many directions and forms this.
What is a delta?
500
Hard to ship through the river because of these in Nubia.
What are cataracts?
500
Nubian traders carried goods from these place and they would then bring them back to their people.
What is Central Africa and southwestern Asia?