1. Geography of Egypt

2. What can we learn from this image?

3. What can we learn from this image?
Where do you think the majority of the people lived?
Describe what the Green and Tan areas of the map?
How could the location of Egypt help it grow into a great civilization?

6. Ancient Egyptian Song
“Hail O Nile, who comes from the earth, who comes to give life to the people of Egypt”

7. What are the benefits of living near a river?
Water to drink
Water for farming
Washing
Transportation
Fishing
Hunting animals
Mud for building

8. The Nile Longest river in the world 4145 miles
Flows to the north from the Ethiopian high lands to the Mediterranean sea.
Begins as two separate rivers-Blue and White Nile
Lower Egypt-North Egypt near the delta
Upper Egypt-South of Memphis

9. The Nile Lower Egypt-North Egypt near the delta. North of Memphis
Upper Egypt-South of Memphis

10. The Delta
A delta is the land at the mouth of a river that is formed by mud and sand as it is deposited by a large river.

11. Nile Delta from Space

12. Herodotus “Gifts of The Nile”
About 2,500 years ago, Herodotus, a Greek visitor to ancient Egypt called Egypt the “Gifts of The Nile”.
The gifts of the Nile were very important to the Egyptians.
What are the Gifts?

13. Herodotus Gifts of the Nile #1-Silt
Black Soil/Silt that was left by the floods. >The Silt recharged the soil
> Allowed Farmers to grow a surplus of crops.

15. Kemet The Egyptians called their land Kemet or the Black Land.
They called it Kemet because of the rich black farm land (silt).

16. Herodotus Gifts of the Nile #2-Papyrus
Papyrus- Large reed that grew wild along the river.
They used it to make mats, boats, baskets, ropes, sandals…
Strips glued together in sheets made paper. Long sheet is a scroll.

17. Irrigation Each year the river would flood.
Heavy rains and melting snow from central Africa caused the floods
Nile floods were gentle and dependable compared to Mesopotamia.

19. Irrigation
To take advantage of the annual flooding of the Nile, the people built irrigation channels to carry water into fields

20. Shaduff- Irrigation tool

21. Natural Boundaries
The Sahara Desert (Eastern and Western Deserts) are located next to the Nile.
The Mediterranean Sea to the North
Red Sea to the East.
6 Cataracts throughout the Nile.
Cataracts are rapids, waterfalls. Made transportation difficult in some areas.