NATURAL RESOURCES

EXPLAIN HOW EGYPTIANS USED THEIR SALT?

• To preserve and flavor food and to tan animal hide.

HOW DID THE DESERT PROVIDE MATERIALS FOR BUILDING THINGS?

• Palm trees were used in construction ,other native trees,such as sycamore.
• Sandstone and limestone were quarried and shaped without using machinery and cutting tools.

DISCUSS HOW EGPYT USED TREES/TIMBER?

• They used timber to decorate if they had enough money they could improve there coffin.

LIST THE 3 STEPS OF MAKING PAPYRUS PAPER?

• Sliced stalks into strips
• They laid the stalks on each other
• Beaten to make sheet

OTHER THAN THE NILE RIVER,WHAT WAS EGYPTS MOST IMPORTANT NATURAL RESOURCE

• Gold
• Flax is a winter vegetable
• Cataracts are rapids.
• Desserts

WERE WE PULLED THE INFORMATION

• Http://www.pbs.org/empires/Egypt/newkindom/workers.html