1. Warm-up Questions What is the longest river in the world?
Who named Egypt as a gift of this river?
What is the greatest benefit that this river gave to the Egyptians?
Fresh water for the crops
Fish from the river
Annual flooding of the land

3. Ancient Egypt Geography of Egypt Ancient Civilizations
Mr. Hollingsworth’s World History
Monday – September 18, 2017

4. Alabama Course of Study
Analyze characteristics of early civilizations in respect to technology, division of labor, government, calendar, and writings.
Comparing significant features of civilizations that developed in the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He River valleys.
Identifying on a map locations of cultural hearths of early civilizations.

5. Alabama Course of Study
Compare the development of early world religions, philosophies, and their key tenets.
Identifying cultural contributions of early world religions and philosophies.

6. Today’s Learning Targets
I will use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I will locate geographical features of ancient Egypt on a map.
I will describe the importance of the Nile’s consistent flooding to the Egyptians.
I will cite evidence of the geographic influence on the Egyptian civilization.

7. Warm-up Questions What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile River
Who named Egypt as a gift of the Nile River?
Greek Historian - Herodotus
What is the longest river in the world?
Who named Egypt as a gift of this river?

8. Warm-up Questions
What is the greatest gift that the Nile gave to the Egyptians?
Fresh water for the crops
Fish from the river
Annual flooding of the land

9. Locations and Physical Features
How many miles long is the Nile River?
In which direction does the Nile River flow downstream?

10. Nile River – 4000 miles long Nile flows north into Mediterranean Sea

11. Locations and Physical Features
How wide of a fertile valley did the Nile River create?
What geographic feature surrounds the Nile River Valley to the east and west?
13 miles
deserts

12. Locations and Physical Features
What marked the southern border of Upper Egypt?
If you were standing at the Great Pyramid of Giza, in which direction would you travel to get to Upper Egypt?
The first cataract
South

13. Locations and Physical Features
What land feature is located at the mouth of the Nile River?
How much of Egypt’s farmland is located at the mouth of the Nile?
Nile River Delta
2/3 of Egyptian Farming located here

14. Locations and Physical Features
What geographic feature makes up most of Egypt?
How does the flooding of the Nile compare to the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Desert
Gentle and predictable / dangerous and unpredictable

15. Locations and Physical Features
What did the Egyptians call the desert regions?
How important was it that the Nile River flooded the land to the Egyptians?
Red land
Egyptians never would have settled without it.

16. Locations and Physical Features
Using the map located on page 91, answer the following:
About how many miles apart are the cities of Pe and Thebes?
About how many miles south of the last cataract does the Nile branch into the White & Blue Nile Rivers?
450 miles
75 miles

17. Time for a Timeline
In your notebook on page four, you are going to create a timeline spanning the time of hunter-gatherers to the establishment of the Second Dynasty.
It is to have the following characteristics:
Titled – Unification of Egypt
Vertical layout w/ simple illustrations
Alternating from side to side (6 events minimum)

18. Unification of Egypt Hunter Gatherers arrive. Villages Formed:
Menes comes to power. Unifies both kingdoms. First Dynasty begins.
Rivals take over Egypt & First Dynasty ends
10,000 BC
3200 BC
3100 BC
2900 BC
Egyptians begin farming
Strong leaders form Upper and Lower Egyptian Kingdoms:
Memphis is built
Second Dynasty Begins

19. Key Terms Review Strong rapids
cataracts
A triangle-shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river
delta

20. Key Terms Review Ruler of Egypt (Great House)
pharaoh
A series of rulers from the same family
dynasty

21. Survey How long is the Nile River? How wide is the Nile River Valley?
4000 miles
How wide is the Nile River Valley?
13 miles

22. Survey
If you were in Upper Egypt, in which direction would you travel to get to Lower Egypt?
North
Where is most of Egypt’s farmland located?
Nile River Delta / Lower Egypt

23. Survey Would the Egyptian culture exist without the Nile River Valley?No
What did Menes wear to symbolize his rule over both Upper and Lower Egypt?
The crowns of both combined into one.

24. Survey Who would become Egypt’s first pharaoh?
Menes
What was the capital city Menes had built?
Memphis

25. Today’s Learning Targets
I can use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I can locate geographical features of ancient Egypt on a map.
I can describe the importance of the Nile’s consistent flooding to the Egyptians.
I can cite evidence of the geographic influence on the Egyptian civilization.