Egypt Review of Key Concepts -Egypt & Key Israelites

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What was the name of the MAIN water source for Ancient Egyptians?

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The Nile River

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Using the Chart, WHICH SEASON do the Egyptians harvest their crops?

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Shemu

Front

Using the Chart, during which season are farmers working somewhere else (such as building the pyramids?)

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Akhet

Front

Using the Chart, during which season are the fields flooding and fertilized with rich silt for growing to begin?

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Akhet

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The Nile River impacted the people of the region because:

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it allowed their civilization to grow due to fresh water

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When fields were flooding in Egypt, what were farmers doing?

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canal repairs and pyramid building to help the empire

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What was an effect of NOT ENOUGH flooding?

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not as much food could be grown/produced

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Farming and trade along the Nile River impacted the Egyptians in all of the following ways EXCEPT: they grew surpuluses of food, or more than they needed so they could trade, trade increased their wealth as cities , trade caused them to stay ONLY in their cities , difficulties with farming led to new inventions like the Mesopotamians

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trade caused them to stay ONLY in their cities

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The pharaohs of Egypt made all of the decisions. How did this directly impact the people living there?

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they had no say in what happened to them

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Why was it important to the Egyptian people that Pharaohs were looked at as MORE THAN leaders, but gods chosen to lead the people and maintain order?

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the pharaoh established a link between them (humans) and all of their gods