Module 4:Kingdoms of the Nile-Lesson 1-2 Review

________ played a key role in the development of the Egyptian civilization.

• Geography

• Planets

• Valleys

• Farmers

The Greek Historian Herodotus called Egypt ______________.

• The best country

• The Valley of Egypt

• The Gift of the Nile

• Central Africa

This is the longest river in the world.

• The Red River

• The Nile River

• The Tigris River

• The Euphrates River

What two regions are a part of ancient Egypt ?

• First and Second Egypt

• High and Low Egypt

• Upper and Lower Egypt

• Upper and First Egypt

________ are steep rapids that are a large body of flowing water.

• river

• ocean

• cataracts

• waterfall

What is a triangular-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river?

• delta

• branches

• farmland

• desert

rain fall to the south of Egypt and East of Africa causes the Nile to

• develop

• flow upstream

• flood

• dry up

The Nile flooding coated the land and made the soil ideal

• for flooding

• for farming

• for traveling

• for invaders

the flooding of the Nile River for the Egyptians was a

• disappointment

• an expectation

• a life-giving miracle

• a ritual

without the _______ people never could have farmed in Egypt

• floods

• deserts

• mountains

• country