Ancient Egypt

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The world's longest river, 4000 miles, flowed northward to the Mediterranean Sea

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Nile

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Fertile, fan-shaped farmland at the mouth of the Nile River

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delta

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Fine, fertile mixture of soil and rocks deposited by the Nile River along the Nile Valley and Delta

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silt

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The city of Memphis was known as ...

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black land

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A region of lower elevation in northern Egypt; fertile soil because of the delta

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Lower Egypt

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An area in Southern Egypt that is mountainous, where the Nile River begins

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Upper Egypt

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A plant whose stems are used to make a kind of paper that grew along the banks of the Nile River

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papyrus

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A large body of water north of Egypt in which the Nile River flows into

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Mediterranean Sea

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The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the...

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Gift of the Nile

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The Nile was considered the "taker of life" because ...

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flooding