The Nile River - Ancient Egyptian farmers

The Ancient Egyptians knew each year, what time the Nile River would flood.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

The Ancient Egyptians knew the time of the year. They also invented a calendar following the moon.

The Ancient Egyptian framers did not depend on the Nile River.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

The Ancient Egyptian farmers depended on the Nile River for their crops and cattle (Dilley et al, 2012).

The Nile River is 6 853 km long

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

The Nile River begins in the Central Africa Mountains.

The Ancient Egyptian famers grew which crops

• rice

• wheat and barley

• rooibos

• bananas

Answer explanation

They used it to make bread and would store some incase of famine (Dilley et al, 2012).

How many countries does the Nile River flow through?

• 15

• 2

• 5

• 11

Answer explanation

Some countries it flows through are Sudan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and a few more (Dilley et al, 2012).

People from which areas came to Egypt?

• China and Malaysia

• Nubia, Libya, Palestine and Syria

• Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban and Namibia

• Australia, Fiji and New Zealand

Their homes were made of (a)   bricks?

The soil along the river stayed rich and good for (a)  

Answer explanation

The soil was fertile due to the flooding of the Nile River (Dilley et al, 2012).

Describe how a shaduf works.

Answer explanation

"A lever with a weight at one end of a pole and a bucket at the other end. used to lift water out of a canal and poured into smaller irrigation channels. the water was lifted with a bucket (Dilley et al, 2012)."

Draw a shaduf.

Answer explanation

South African History online. 2012.