Egypt

ancient region in the Nile River Valley

• cataract

• delta

• silt

• Nubia

a large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water

• cataract

• delta

• silt

• Nubia

a plain at the mouth of a river

• cataract

• delta

• silt

• Nubia

fine soil on river bottoms

• cataract

• delta

• silt

• Nubia

two main sources of the Nile River

• Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

• Blue Nile and White Nile

• Tigris River and Euphrates River

• Upper Nile and Lower Nile

this land is named after the dark soil left by the Nile's floods

• Sumer, the red land

• Mesopotamia, the green land

• Kemet, the black land

• Nubia, the yellow land

this area beyond the river bank protected Egypt and Nubia from foreign attacks

• the red land

• the green land

• the black land

• the yellow land

Nubia had to develop trade routes over land because ______ prevented river travel

• pyramids

• silt

• deltas

• cataracts

a huge building with four sloping triangular-shaped walls

• afterlife

• mummy

• pyramid

• Giza

a life after death

• afterlife

• mummy

• pyramid

• Giza