Ancient Egypt

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

• Amazon

• Nile

• Tigris

• Euphrates

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

• plain

• gulf

• bay

• delta

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

• silt

• minerals

• dirt

• peat

The city of Memphis was known as ...

• yellow land

• red land

• brown land

• black land

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

• Upper Egypt

• Middle Egypt

• Lower Egypt

• Cataract

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

• Upper Egypt

• Lower Egypt

• Middle Egypt

• Ancient Egypt

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

• papyrus

• wheat

• barley

• rice

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

• Red Sea

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Mediterranean Sea

• Black Sea

The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the...

• Gift of the Nile

• Gift of a mile

• Gift of the pile

• Gift for awhile

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

• earthquakes

• drought

• flooding

• tornadoes