Lesson 7 Vocabulary: Geography & the Early Settlement of Egypt, Kush, and Canaan

The shape and elevation of surface features, such as mountains or deserts, of a place or region

• Vegetation

• Topography

• Geography

The plants of a place or region

• Topography

• Geography

• Vegetation

The longest river in the world, flowing through eastern Africa to a delta in northeastern Egypt.

• Euphrates River

• Tigris River

• Jordan River

• Nile River

A nation in Northeast Africa, first settled around 3100 B.C.E.

• Kush

• Egypt

• Canaan

• Arabia

A society along the Nile River, south of Egypt, from about 2000 B.C.E. to 350 C.E.

• Canaan

• Egypt

• Kush

• Arabia

A body of water north of Africa.

• Red Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

• Gulf of Aden

• Indian Ocean

A land northeast of Egypt, settled by the ancient Israelites, from about 1800 to 70 C.E.

• Egypt

• Canaan

• Kush

• Arabia

A river in southwestern Asia that flows from the Lebanon Mountains, south through the Sea of Galilee, into the Dead Sea.

• Nile River

• Jordan River

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River