Unit 3 Ancient Egypt - Un1; Less1; Geography

Smaller tributary of the Nile River which begins in the Ethiopian Highlands?

• Nile River

• Blue Nile River

• White Nile River

• Nile Delta

What is the longer tributary of the main Nile that begins in central Africa near Lake VIctoria?

• Blue Nile

• White Nile

• Nile River

• Nile Delta

Upper Egypt was in the _______ part of Ancient Egypt.

• Northern

• Southern

• Eastern

• Western

Deserts surrounding the Nile River provided the Ancient Egyptians protection against ________.

• Invasion

• Protection

• Rain

• Traders

What is a unique fact about the Nile River?

• widest river in the world

• has the most tributaries of any world river system

• it is the only river in the world that flows north

• longest river in the world

What role did the deserts play in the lives of Egyptians?

• It did not help them in any way.

• It did not protect them from invaders and it flowed north.

• It protected them from invaders and allowed them to live anywhere.

• It protected them from invaders and forced them to live near the Nile.

How did ancient Egypt get most of their wealth and power?

• manufacturing

• trade

• agriculture

• banking

How did the Egyptian civilization gain wealth?

• war

• trade

• making money

• loans to other civilizations

How does the annual flooding of the Nile affect farmers in the Nile River Valley?

• It makes it difficult for farmers to get their crops to market.

• It enriches the soil with new nutrients carried in from upriver.

• It destroys whatever crops have not been harvested by late spring.

• It enables them to grow a crop of rice between the harvest of other crops.

Which term means a river reed of the Nile from which their paper was made?

• cataract

• delta

• inundation

• papyrus