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Location/Physical Features
Floods of the Nile
Civilization Develops
Unification
Potpourri
100
This is 13 miles wide
What is the Nile River Valley
100
The names of the two parts of the Nile that converge to make one river
What are the White and Blue Nile
100
Egyptians used these to collect water during the yearly floods
What are basins
100
The goal of Menes
What is unify Upper and Lower Egypt
100
Menes father, or possibly another name for Menes himself
What is Narmer
200
The length of the Nile River
What is 4000 miles
200
The silt of the Nile floodwaters turned the land a dark color, which the Egyptians referred to as this.
What is "the black land"
200
Aside from a stable food supply, the Nile Valley offered what other valuable advantage?
What are natural barriers
200
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What is when Menes rose to power
200
Greek historian known for his studies of Egypt
What is Herodotus
300
The total number of cataracts found in the Nile is 6. How many are found in Egypt?
What is 1
300
The dry, lifeless desert beyond the river valley
What is "the red land"
300
Extended from Memphis to the Mediterranean Sea
What is Lower Egypt
300
For centuries, this city was the political and cultural center of Egypt
What is Memphis
300
How Herodotus referred to Egypt
What is the gift of the Nile
400
Found in the Nile Delta, these smaller rivers break away from the main body of the river and empty in to the Mediterranean Sea.
What are tributaries.
400
Egyptians viewed the Nile as a "live-giving" what?
What is miracle
400
5000 years ago
What is when people started to settle around the area of the Nile
400
The purpose of the double-crown
What is symbolized leadership over two kingdoms
400
Length of time the First Dynasty lasted
What is about 200 years
500
The fraction of fertile farmland found in the Nile Delta
What is 2/3
500
The difference between the floods of the Tigris and Euphrates versus the Nile
What is predictable vs. unpredictable
500
The 5 types of animals raised or hunted
What are cattle, sheep, fish, geese and ducks
500
Number of years Menes was in control before his death by hippopotamus
What is 62 years
500
This was another continent that the First Dynasty extended Egyptian territory in to
What is Asia