1. Write using COMPLETE sentences Which site would you have started Ancient Egypt at? WHY?? Give AT LEAST 3 reasons to support your opinion

4. Agriculture again is the foundation that allowed civilizations to grow Began in the Sahara Dessert (10,000B.C.E.) Began in the Sahara Dessert (10,000B.C.E.) - Steppe grass, lakes, rivers & streams - small monarchies ruled throughout Climate Change (5,000 B.C.E.) Climate Change (5,000 B.C.E.) - became dessert - drove people & animals to Nile River - few larger civilizations formed Egypt & Nubia Egypt & Nubia

6. Relied on Nile River & Agriculture Traded with each other

7. “ As far as the eye can see, flood waters cover the land. Here and there, villages stand on slight rises above the swirling river”

9. Every year the river floods ~100 days Every year the river floods ~100 days While under water the people work for the pharaoh building temples While under water the people work for the pharaoh building temples

11. As water retreats, the mud is plowed As water retreats, the mud is plowed Wheat & Barley is planted Wheat & Barley is planted Small garden for personal use Small garden for personal use

12. Harvest 4 months after planting Harvest 4 months after planting People keep 1\2 People keep 1\2 Rest goes to the Pharaoh as tax Rest goes to the Pharaoh as tax

14. - Pharaoh Menes - Able to use the Nile to increase agriculture - Rose to power & conquered most of Egypt - created centralized Gov’t led by Pharaohs

15. They used the resources the land provided them to… Built Pyramids Built Tombs Created a strong Military Horse Chariots Horse Chariots Bronze Weapons Bronze Weapons

18. PHARAOH PHARAOH Supreme ruler, God like CENTRAL GOV’T CENTRAL GOV’T 1. Military 2. Administrators 3. Tax Collectors Common people could rise LOWER CLASS LOWER CLASS 1. Peasants 2. Slaves Provide hard labor ---------------------------- EXCEPTION - Queen Hatsheput - Co ruled w\ step son Tuthmosis III

20. Sail Boats Hieroglyphics - “Holy Inscriptions” - 3200B.C.E. - Pictographic & symbols to represent sounds - written on papyrus Mummification Organized Religion

21. Polytheistic: different gods control the forces of nature Belief in live after death Prepared carefully for journey through the underworld to the “Happy Field of Food” Pyramids: tombs filled with food, clothing & jewels needed for the afterlife

23. Amon-Re: Sun God, Chief god Amon-Re: Sun God, Chief god Osiris: God of the underworld and of the Nile Osiris: God of the underworld and of the Nile (evil Seth, death, wife, resurrected)

25. Assyrian Army attacked from the North Kushite Dynasty attacked from the south

26. UNIT: Geography TOPIC: Ancient Egypt PROMPT: Explain THREE ways the Nile River affected Ancient Egypt. Then answer the question: Would Ancient Egypt exist without the Nile? Defend your answer