Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt
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30ºE 40ºE
Mediterranean Sea
Africa
Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt
Sahara Desert
Ale xa nd ria
Ro se tta
Giza
Memphis
Sinai
Pen.
Valley of the Kings
1st Cataract
The bes
2nd Cataract
KUSH
3rd
Cata ract
4th
Cat ara ct
5th Catara
6th Catara ct
Blu ct e N ile
W hit e N ile
Re d S ea
50ºN
40ºN
Middle East
30ºN
Tropic of Cancer
20ºN
N
10ºN
0º
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Write the answers to the Nile River
Questions in the boats. Be sure to rephrase the question in your answer and use complete sentences. Cut out your boats and arrange them along the Nile
River.
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Answer the following questions on your Nile River boats. Use complete sentences and restate the question in your answer.
1. What is the longest river in the world?
2. In which direction does the
Nile River flow? (north, south, east, or west)
3. Into which body of water does the Nile River flow?
4. In which hemisphere (northern or southern) is the Nile River located?
5. If the Nile River flooded in the summer, in what season would the Egyptians have planted their crops?
6. If the Nile River flooded in the summer, in what season would the Egyptians have harvested their crops?
7. What type of land feature surrounds the Nile River?
8. What is the term for a triangular-shaped area of marshy land at the mouth of a river?
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Answer the following questions on your Nile River boats. Use complete sentences and restate the question in your answer.
1. What is the longest river in the world? Nile
2. In which direction does the
Nile River flow? (north, south, east, or west)
North
3. Into which body of water does the Nile River flow? Mediterranean Sea
4. In which hemisphere (northern or southern) is the Nile River located? Northern
5. If the Nile River flooded in the summer, in what season would the Egyptians have planted their crops? Fall
6. If the Nile River flooded in the summer, in what season would the Egyptians have harvested their crops? Winter and Spring
7. What type of land feature surrounds the Nile River?
Desert
8. What is the term for a triangular-shaped area of marshy land at the mouth of a river? Delta
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M od er n D ay
Gr eek
R ule
Ar ch aic
4000 BC-2700 BC
Ol d
Ki ng do m
2700 BC-2050 BC
M idd le
Ki ng do m
2050 BC-1570 BC
Ne w
Ki ng do m
1570 BC-332 BC
332 BC-30 BC
1798 AD-1922 AD
4000 B.C.
3500
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M od er n D ay
Ar ch aic
Farmers settle in the Nile Valley.
Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt unite, capital at Memphis,
Menes is first pharaoh.
Hieroglyphics developed.
4000 BC-2700 BC
Ol d
Ki ng do m Step Pyramid designed and built by Imhotep. Great Pyramids built at Giza for the pharaoh Khufu.
Great Sphinx built at Giza. Civil War breaks out.
2700 BC-2050 BC a.k.a. The Age of the Pyramids
M idd le
Ki ng do m
King of Thebes reunites Egypt, capital at Thebes.
Hyksos from Asia conquer Lower Egypt, Hyksos had horses,
Egyptians had never seen horses before.
2050 BC-1570 BC ing do m
New
K
Hyksos defeated, New Kingdom begins. Hatshepsut’s rule begins, female pharaoh, her rule was very peaceful. Then Thutmose’s rule begins, he conquered many lands and built a great empire. Then Tutankhamen’s rule begins, became pharaoh at age nine, died at age nineteen.
Next, Ramses II’s rule begins, Moses frees the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Kush conquers Egypt.
1570 BC-332 BC a.k.a. The Golden Age of Egypt
Gr ee k R ule Alexander the Great of Greece conquers Egypt. Capital at Alexandria (Memphis).
69 B.C.-Cleopatra’s rule begins.
30 B.C.-Rome conquers Egypt, Cleopatra commits suicide
332 BC-30 BC
1798 A.D.-Rosetta Stone is discovered in the Nile Delta by Napoleon’s troops.
1922 A.D.-Howard Carter discovers King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings
1798 AD-1922 AD
4000 B.C.
3500
B.C.
3000
B.C.
2500 B.C.
2000 B.C.
1500 B.C.
1000 B.C.
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0 B.C.
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pharaohs
pyramids & tombs mummies
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hieroglyphics religion animals
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social classes medicine astronomy
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