Slide 7 African Civilizations

Question 1

Describe what happened during the Precursor to the Egyptian civilizations

Answer 1

-Increased drying causes
pastoralists and hunter/gatherers
to move into the Nile Valley
after 5400 BC.
- Annual round of hunting,
herding, farming,
wild seed collecting.
- Ancient Egyptian civilization came just after
the Sumerians and there was some degree of
influence from Mesopotamia

Question 2

Egyptian civilization was centered on ______

Answer 2

Nile river

Question 3

the nile river valley is made by rich _______

Answer 3

alluvium deposited by annual floods of the nile

Question 4

Neolithic farming villages emerged in the valley by ______. They cultivated ______ and raised _______

Answer 4

-5000 bc 
Cultivated: 
-emmer wheat
• flax
• barley
-Raised: 
-cattle
• sheep
• goats
• pigs

Question 5

Ancient Egypt is a _________ and is the ________ of its size.

Answer 5

• primary civilization

- the first state

Question 6

Ancient egypt was divided into_________

Answer 6

Pre-Dynasric Egypt (5000-3000 BC) 
Dynastic Egypt (3000-332BC)