The Nile Valley
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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.
