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ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE NILE RIVER

WHAT IS THE NILE RIVER?

• Barren desert
• Formed from the White and Blue Nile

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE NILE RIVER AND THE SURROUNDING FERTILE LAND

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• Live by fIood patterns
• Crops
• Black Soil
• No Fertilizer

FARMING

COW GRAZING

LIVING BETWEEN FERTILE LANDS AND DESERT - REASON 1

• Left underwater during a fIood
• Mudbrick homes
• Rain was rare
• Mudbrick survival rate of a couple weeks of water

LIVING BETWEEN FERTILE LANDS AND DESERT - REASON 2

• Maximize crop growing

TRADING

• Traded gold, papyrus, linen, grain
• Cedar wood, ebony, ivory, lapis lazuli, incense, myrrh, copper, and iron.
• Used Nile River to trade
• River flows upstream due to gravity
• Egyptians used steam boats

SOURCES

• Google Images
• Youtube
• Yahoo! Answers
• Webster Dictionary
• egypt-trade.wikidot.com

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• resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/egypt/nile.htm
• http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/