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the world's longest river, which flows northward about 3,500 miles through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea

• Euphrates River

• Nile River

• Tigris River

• Amazon River

one of the two rivers that merge to create the Nile; flows north out of Lake Victoria

• Blue Nile

• White Nile

one of the Nile's two major tributaries - originates in Ethiopia

• White Nile

• Blue Nile

a huge desert stretching across most of North Africa

• Death Valley

• Sinai Peninsula

• "the Red Land"

• Sahara

groups of rocky rapids

• silt

• delta

• cataracts

the southern part of ancient Egypt located below the cataracts

• Great Pyramid

• Lower Egypt

• Upper Egypt

fine mineral particles that can form fertile soil

• cataracts

• delta

• silt

a landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake

• cataracts

• delta

• silt

the region of Egypt that surrounds the Nile Delta

• Lower Egypt

• Upper Egypt

• Arabian Peninsula

fertile land on the banks of the Nile River

• "the Black Land"

• "the Red Land"