The Nile Valley
Settling the Nile/ A Mighty River
 When did people start to settle this
area?
 What did the Nile provide the
Egyptians?
 How long is the Nile?
 What are cataracts?
When did people start to settle this area?
 Between 6,000 and 5,000 B.C.
What did the Nile provide the Egyptians?
 Drinking water, baths, farming, cooking, and cleaning.
It provided FISHING and supported plants/animals.
How long is the Nile?
 4,000 miles
What are cataracts?
 Wild Rapids, prevent ships from traveling on
up the Nile
A Sheltered Land
 What is a delta?
 What deserts surround the Nile?
 What did the deserts provide the
people of Egypt?
 How were the villages in Egypt
different then the villages in
Mesopotamia?
What is a delta?
 Low fan shaped area of fertile soil, at
What deserts surround the Nile?
 The Sahara and the Eastern Desert
What did the deserts provide the
people of Egypt?
 Protection from enemies.
How were the villages in Egypt different
then the villages in Mesopotamia?
 They were friendly with one another.
The River People/Regular Flooding
 How were Nile floods different
then Tigris and Euphrates
floods?
 How did this affect the
Egyptians?
 Why did they call their land
Kemet?
How were Nile floods different then
Tigris and Euphrates floods?
 They were gentler and more dependable. Egyptians
were able to farm and lively securely.
How did this affect the Egyptians?
 Again they didn’t have to worry about things like
Mesopotamians.
Why did they call their land Kemet?
 They called the dark, fertile mud Kemet, meaning
black land.
Nile River vs Tigris/Euphrates
 The T.T.A is whack yo!
 They want you to travel back to 6,000 B.C. and
start a new civilization. They said it is up to you
if you want to settle in the Nile River Valley or
the Fertile Crescent.
 Which one should you choose? (YOU MUST
CHOOSE NILE RIVER VALLEY AND
PROVIDE 5 Reasons why you did so.)
 Think about the geography and physical
attributes of the two valleys.
How did the Egyptians use the Nile?
 What types of crops did the Egyptians
grow?
 How did Egyptians use irrigation?
 What is a shadoof?
 What is papyrus?
 What did the Egyptians use it for?
What types of crops did the Egyptians grow?
 Wheat, barley, and flax seeds in the wet, rich soil.
How did Egyptians use irrigation?
 They dug basins to hold flood waters for later use.
What is a shadoof?
A bucket attached to a long pole, to lift
water from the Nile to the basins.
What is papyrus?
 A reed plant that grows along the shore of the
nile.
What did the Egyptians use Papyrus for?
 PAPER, baskets, sandals, and river rafts
What were Hieroglyphics?
 What were Hieroglyphics?
 Who could read and write?
What were
Hieroglyphics?
 Egyptians developed their own style of writing. It was made up
of thousands of picture symbols.
 http://www.kidzone.ws/cultures/egypt/hier
oglyph.htm
Who could read and write?
 Egyptian Males
A United Egypt/The Rise of Government
 What did surpluses of food lead to?
 Why were governments needed?
 Where was the kingdom of Lower
Egypt?
 Where was the kingdom of Upper
Egypt?
What did surpluses of food lead to?
 Specialization, and then trade.
Why were governments needed?
 Control irrigation, ration food supplies, building
projects, land disputes
Where was the kingdom of Lower Egypt?
 Nile Delta
Where was the kingdom of Upper Egypt?
 To the South, UPRIVER, is the UPPER KINGDOM.
Hieroglyphics Are Whack Yo!
Write a sentence in Hieroglyphics, then with the
person next to you see if you can translate each
others sentences. The sentence must be a fact
about Egypt that we learned today.
Egypt’s Ruling Families
 Who united the two Kingdoms of Egypt?
 Where did he rule from?
 What are dynasties?
 What 3 time periods was Egypt broken
into?
Who united the two Kingdoms of Egypt?
 Narmer, he used his armies to do it.
Where did he rule from?
 Memphis, he built it between the two Kingdoms.
What are dynasties?
 A line of rulers from one family.
What 3 Kingdom periods was Egypt broken
into?
 Old, Middle, and New Kingdom
Early Egyptian Life
 What is a class system?
 Who was in Egypt’s upper class?
 Who was in Egypt’s middle class?
 Who was in Egypt’s lower class?
What is a class system?
 People held different places in society depending on
what work they did and how much wealth or power
they had.
Who was in Egypt’s upper class?
 Nobles, priests, and other wealthy Egyptians
Who was in Egypt’s middle class?
 Traders, Artisans, shopkeepers, and scribes.
 Then Farmers and Herders
Who was in Egypt’s lower class?
 Unskilled workers
Family Life
 Pretty much the same as Sumerian women.
 Venn Diagram-Egypt vs Mesopotamia
Give 4 examples of how
Egyptian Life was different
then Mesopotamian life.
Then give 2 ways it was
similar.
Social Class is Nasty Fool.
 In the book Social class is shown in
the form of a pyramid. Please
represent the social classes of Egypt
in another way. Be Creative, include
the classes and who is in what class.
NO TRIANGLES. Then write 4
sentences describing your social
class picture. You have to draw some
of the people inside your larger
drawing.