Topic 9

Question 0

What are some features on the Nile river?

Answer 0

Cataracts, deltas,and oasis.

Question 1

Is the Nile River the longest river in the world?

Answer 1

Yes, the Nile is the longest river in the world traveling over 4000 miles.

Question 2

Describe Egypt’s climate.

Answer 2

Dry, hot, and almost no rain.

Question 3

Where does the water from floods come from?

Answer 3

Snow from the mountains.

Question 4

Did Farmers depend on these floods?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

Where the floods in Egypt predictable?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Was it easy to invade Egypt, because of the geographical features?

Answer 6

No because most people live along the Nile and there was lots of desert around the Nile.

Question 7

How did the Egyptian water their crops?

Answer 7

Using basin irrigation.

Question 8

What is silt?

Answer 8

thick, dark, and high nutrients soil that was left behind from flooding, this was good for farming.

Question 9

What is papyrus?

Answer 9

A long, thin reed, grew wild along the riverbanks.

Question 10

What is a cataract?

Answer 10

The rushing water forms, waterfalls, and rapids.

Question 11

Did both parts of Egypt have Kings right away?

Answer 11

No(not till 3300 B.C)

Question 12

What’s was the first history in ancient Egypt?

Answer 12

The invention of Hieroglyphic.

Question 13

What happened during the old Kingdom?

Answer 13

The Egyptians built the great pyramids.

Question 14

What happened during the middle Kingdom?

Answer 14

Egyptians grew stronger, And achieved a lot in literature, art, architecture.

Question 15

What happened in the new Kingdom?

Answer 15

The Egyptians conquered other nations. Gained world power.

Question 16

What is dynasty?

Answer 16

a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group (dictonary.com)

Question 17

How did the Nile river affect Egyptian society?

Answer 17

The Nile River’s seasonal floods left
behind nutrient-rich fertile soil along the
banks of the rivers which allowed
agriculture to prosper in the region.

Question 18

What is the densest ( most populated per sq mile)part of Egypt?

Answer 18

The Nile Delta provides the largest area
of arable land which in turn makes this
the densest area for people to settle in
Egypt, both past and present.

Question 19

How many cataracts are there in the Nile River?

Answer 19

There are six cataracts in the Nile River.

Question 20

How did Cataracts benefit society in Egypt?

Answer 20

Settlements near the cataracts developed
as important trade centers due to the
rapids forcing travelers on boats to stop.

Question 21

Explain why there are upper Egypt and lower Egypt.

Answer 21

The location of Upper and Lower Egypt may seem backward to us, but they actually are not, and it is due to the flow of the Nile River.
Because the Nile River has a Northern flow, Upper Egypt is actually the southern part of the country.