| Term | Definition |
|---|
| desertification | any change of fertile land into a desert |
| delta | a triangle-shaped land at the river's mouth |
| silt | fine bits of rock and soil |
| cataract | a waterfall or a place in a river where water runs fast over rocks |
| predict | to tell ahead of time |
| 4000 miles long | How long is the nile river? |
| longest | The nile river is the ______ river in the world. |
| It was a grassy plain where people could live by hunting and gathering food | During the Paleolithic period, northeastern Africa was what and what did people do there? |
| plant and grow wheat and barley | The rich soil along the nile river helped early farmers do what? |
| black land | What is the land along the nile river called? |
| red land | What did they call the dried out desert? |
| the water and fertile soil | What natural resource did the nile river give the Egyptains that allowed them to servive there? |
| it gave bountiful crops | How was the nile river the giver of life? |
| to much rain caused uncontrolled flooding and when there was not enough rain the crops dried up | How was the nile river the taker of life? |
| the skies to predict the weather | The Egyptains studied what to predict what? |
| Innundation, Emergence, and Harvest | What were the three seasons? |
| the time of flooding | What does Innundation mean? |
| the time that the flooding water receded to the nile and farmers began to plow the fields and plant crops | What does Emergence mean? |
| the time to care for and harvest their crops | What does Harvest mean? |
| stories about their gods | The people of ancient Egypt used what to explain nature? |
| the god Osiris | Who taught Egyptains about farming? |
| Amon- Re | Who was the most important god for the Egyptains? |
| Lower Egypt | Villages in the northern region of Egypt were called what? |
| Upper Egypt | Villages in the river valley of the delta were called what? |
| King Menes | Legand tells that who united Upper and Lower Egypt? |
| white | What was the color of the crown of Upper Egypt? |
| red | What was the color of the crown of Lower Egypt? |
| by placing the crown of Upper Egypt inside the crown of Lower Egypt | How was the united crown formed? |
| the first organized government representing one group of people | The uniting of Egypt marked the beginning of the world's first what? |
| for 3000 years | How long did Egypts way of governing last? |
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