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How Did The Nile Shape Ancient Egypt

How Did The Nile Shape Ancient Egypt. DBQ Day 1 Windy Mulder Horizon Middle School. Good Morning!. Please write today’s agenda in your planner Warm Up Question: Write down the relative location of Egypt What is it near? Can you name any landforms around it? What continent is it on?.

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How Did The Nile Shape Ancient Egypt

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  1. How Did The Nile Shape Ancient Egypt DBQ Day 1 Windy Mulder Horizon Middle School

  2. Good Morning! • Please write today’s agenda in your planner • Warm Up Question: • Write down the relative location of Egypt • What is it near? • Can you name any landforms around it? • What continent is it on?

  3. Finding a New Homeland

  4. Egyptian History Timeline 2920-2575 BCE Early Dynastic Period: The first pharaohs unify Egypt into a powerful kingdom 2040-1640 BCE Middle Kingdom: Egypt’s population, religion, and arts flourish 712-332 BCE Late Period: Persians invade and annex Egypt 30 BCE Egypt falls to Roman Empire 1550-1070 BCE New Kingdom: Egypt expands into Syria and Nubia; international trade routes established 332-304 BCE Alexander the Great defeats Persians; establishes new capital in Egypt called Alexandria 2575-2134 BCE Old Kingdom: Big advances in technology and architecture; pyramids built in Giza

  5. Vocabulary Black Land: the fertile area fed by the Nile where the soil is rich Red Land: the deserts to the east and west of the Nile Tributaries: rivers and streams that flow into a larger “parent” river Papyrus: a plant with fibrous inner stems used to make paper Irrigation: diverting water to farmland using ditches, canals and pipes

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