Geography and Ancient Egypt, pages 86-89
I.
Location
A. Along the _______________________ river in northern Africa. (find Egypt on the maps
on pages R12 and R13 in your atlas.
B. Two regions.
i. __________________ Egypt
ii. Lower ____________________
C. Fertile river valley _________________ miles wide
D. _______________________, or rapids, made sailing along the Nile difficult.
E. The wide, triangle shaped _________________ was where most of the fertile soil was.
II.
Floods
A. Almost all of Egypt is a _______________________.
B. ______________________ along the Nile is very predictable, which means it happens at
the _________________________ time every year.
C. __________________________ leaves ________________________ which makes the
land very ________________________________.
D. Egyptians considered the annual floods to be a _____________________ because floods
make farming ___________________________
III.
Civilization
A. Groups of __________________________________________ moved into the Nile
region about ________________________________ years ago.
B. Just like in __________________________________________ farmers eventually
learned to build ______________________________________ systems to water their
fields.
C. Egyptians ate many different foods
i. __________________
iv. __________________
ii. __________________
v. __________________
iii. __________________
vi. __________________
D. The Egyptians were protected (look at the map on page 87)
i. By the ______________________ to the west.
ii. By the ________________________________ __________ to the north.
iii. By the _______________________ _______________ to the east
iv. The __________________________________ along the Nile to keep
people from sailing into the kingdom from the south.
E. Farming _____________________________ eventually grew into two kingdoms
i. ____________________ Egypt
ii. Lower ___________________
IV.
Kings Unify Egypt
A. ____________________________, king of Upper Egypt invaded
__________________ Egypt and united Egypt into a single kingdom under his
control.
B. Menes became the first ____________________________ and this began the
first ______________________.
C. The city of _________________________ was the first capital city of Egypt
D. The First __________________________ lasted 200 years until other leaders
took over.