1. Ancient Egypt
3200BC-500BC

2. -Warm climate-good for farming
Egyptian Climate
-Warm climate-good for farming
-Low Humidity

3. Egyptian Geography -Located in North Africa
-Nile River is the longest in the world
a. Gift of the Nile-floods predictably every year
depositing rich silt (soil)
b. farmers linked man made
rivers called canals to the Nile
c. Flows northward
d. Upper Part is “Lower Egypt”
Northern Part is “Upper Egypt”

4. Nile Delta Delta-marshland formed at the mouth of a river.
Why do you think
The Delta is
important to Egypt?

5. How did Egypt’s Geography allow it to thrive?

6. Hymn to the Nile
Explains the importance of the Nile River to Egyptian people.
Egyptians saw the Nile River and the Sun as sacred Gods.