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 ______ bricks?

The soil along the river stayed rich and good for _____

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.