vocabulary
The Course of the Nile
The Desert
Life on the Nile
Trade
100
a triangular-shaped plain at the mouth of a river, formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water
What is Delta-
100
What is the world's longest river?
The Nile River
100
The Black Land in the Desert is called___________
What is Kemet
100
Where did early farming communites settle
What is around the delta
100
What was used to transport goods in Egypt
What is the Nile
200
rich, fertile soil deposited by flooding of a river
What is Silt -
200
The direction that the Nile flows is _____________to the Mediterrean Sea
What is North
200
Deserts to the east and west were protected from what
What is invasion
200
Name what their homes were made out of
What is straw, mud, and bricks
200
Why could ships travel north on the Nile
What is the river was moving downstrem
300
an ancient region in northern Africa extending from the Nile Valley in Egypt to present-day Sudan, specificallybetween the 1st and second cataracts
What is Lower Nubia -
300
The Blue and White Nile meet in the present day country of
What is Sudan
300
Beyond the fertile lands lay ________________
What is the red land
300
____________had less farmland than Egypt
What is Nubia
300
Name the items traded
What is gold, silver, copper and fine pottery
400
an ancient region in northeastern Africa that extended from the Nile Valley in Egypt to present-day specifically between the second and sixth cataracts
What is Upper Nubia
400
The ____________Nile is ______________than the _________________
What is White Nile is calmer than the Blue Nile
400
Unlike the people in Mesopotamia, the people of the Nile did not need to worry about____________
What is Flooding
400
an area in ancient Egypt, in the northern Nile River region
What is Lower Egypt
400
Why could the people not travel the Nile in Nubia
What is cataracts
500
rock- filled rapids
What is Cataracts
500
The Blue Nile rises in the highlands of this country
What is Ethopia
500
Name the Desert that protects the Nile
What is Sahara
500
an area in ancient Egypt in the Nile Valley, south of the river's delta and the 30th northern parallel
What is Upper Egypt
500
Name what the Nubians traded
What is elephant tusks, ostich feathers, eggs and panthar skins. Also boomarangs