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The Nile Valley. Settling the Nile/ A Mighty River. When did people start to settle this area? What did the Nile provide the Egyptians? How long is the Nile? What are cataracts?. When did people start to settle this area?. Between 6,000 and 5,000 B.C.
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Settling the Nile/ A Mighty River • When did people start to settle this area? • What did the Nile provide the Egyptians? • How long is the Nile? • What are cataracts?
When did people start to settle this area? • Between 6,000 and 5,000 B.C.
What did the Nile provide the Egyptians? • Drinking water, baths, farming, cooking, and cleaning. It provided FISHING and supported plants/animals.
How long is the Nile? • 4,000 miles
What are cataracts? • Wild Rapids, prevent ships from traveling on up the Nile
A Sheltered Land • What is a delta? • What deserts surround the Nile? • What did the deserts provide the people of Egypt? • How were the villages in Egypt different then the villages in Mesopotamia?
What is a delta? • Low fan shaped area of fertile soil, at the mouth of a river.
What deserts surround the Nile? • The Sahara and the Eastern Desert
What did the deserts provide the people of Egypt? • Protection from enemies.
How were the villages in Egypt different then the villages in Mesopotamia? • They were friendly with one another.
The River People/Regular Flooding • How were Nile floods different then Tigris and Euphrates floods? • How did this affect the Egyptians? • Why did they call their land Kemet?
How were Nile floods different then Tigris and Euphrates floods? • They were gentler and more dependable. Egyptians were able to farm and lively securely.
How did this affect the Egyptians? • Again they didn’t have to worry about things like Mesopotamians.
Why did they call their land Kemet? • They called the dark, fertile mud Kemet, meaning black land.
Nile River vs Tigris/Euphrates • The T.T.A is whack yo! • They want you to travel back to 6,000 B.C. and start a new civilization. They said it is up to you if you want to settle in the Nile River Valley or the Fertile Crescent. • Which one should you choose? (YOU MUST CHOOSE NILE RIVER VALLEY AND PROVIDE 5 Reasons why you did so.) • Think about the geography and physical attributes of the two valleys.
How did the Egyptians use the Nile? • What types of crops did the Egyptians grow? • How did Egyptians use irrigation? • What is a shadoof? • What is papyrus? • What did the Egyptians use it for?
What types of crops did the Egyptians grow? • Wheat, barley, and flax seeds in the wet, rich soil.
How did Egyptians use irrigation? • They dug basins to hold flood waters for later use.
What is a shadoof? A bucket attached to a long pole, to lift water from the Nile to the basins.
What is papyrus? • A reed plant that grows along the shore of the nile.
What did the Egyptians use Papyrus for? • PAPER, baskets, sandals, and river rafts
What were Hieroglyphics? • What were Hieroglyphics? • Who could read and write?
What were Hieroglyphics? • Egyptians developed their own style of writing. It was made up of thousands of picture symbols.
Who could read and write? • Egyptian Males
A United Egypt/The Rise of Government • What did surpluses of food lead to? • Why were governments needed? • Where was the kingdom of Lower Egypt? • Where was the kingdom of Upper Egypt?
What did surpluses of food lead to? • Specialization, and then trade.
Why were governments needed? • Control irrigation, ration food supplies, building projects, land disputes
Where was the kingdom of Lower Egypt? • Nile Delta
Where was the kingdom of Upper Egypt? • To the South, UPRIVER, is the UPPER KINGDOM.
Hieroglyphics Are Whack Yo! Write a sentence in Hieroglyphics, then with the person next to you see if you can translate each others sentences. The sentence must be a fact about Egypt that we learned today.
Egypt’s Ruling Families • Who united the two Kingdoms of Egypt? • Where did he rule from? • What are dynasties? • What 3 time periods was Egypt broken into?
Who united the two Kingdoms of Egypt? • Narmer, he used his armies to do it.
Where did he rule from? • Memphis, he built it between the two Kingdoms.
What are dynasties? • A line of rulers from one family.
What 3 Kingdom periods was Egypt broken into? • Old, Middle, and New Kingdom
Early Egyptian Life • What is a class system? • Who was in Egypt’s upper class? • Who was in Egypt’s middle class? • Who was in Egypt’s lower class?
What is a class system? • People held different places in society depending on what work they did and how much wealth or power they had.
Who was in Egypt’s upper class? • Nobles, priests, and other wealthy Egyptians
Who was in Egypt’s middle class? • Traders, Artisans, shopkeepers, and scribes. • Then Farmers and Herders
Who was in Egypt’s lower class? • Unskilled workers
Family Life • Pretty much the same as Sumerian women.
Venn Diagram-Egypt vs Mesopotamia • Give 4 examples of how Egyptian Life was different then Mesopotamian life. Then give 2 ways it was similar.
Social Class is Nasty Fool. • In the book Social class is shown in the form of a pyramid. Please represent the social classes of Egypt in another way. Be Creative, include the classes and who is in what class. NO TRIANGLES. Then write 4 sentences describing your social class picture. You have to draw some of the people inside your larger drawing.
