1. Take out your DBQ Packet
Make sure your annotations and questions are completed

2. Background Essay Questions:
1. Name four important river valley civilizations of the ancient world?
Mesopotamia, China, India, Egypt
2. List two or three pairs of contrasts that describe ancient Egypt
Hot sunny days/cold nights
Crop-laden fields/empty desert
Life and death
3. What are two of the sources of the Nile?
Blue Nile, begins in Lake Tana in highlands of Ethiopia
White Nile, begins with the waters that flow into and then out of Lake Victoria in Kenya

3. 4. How did the flooding cycle provide a seasonal rhythm for the Egyptian people? Flooding cycle determined the planting seasons for farmers 5. Why was sand a health threat for Egyptians? They would ground down a person’s teeth, infection and pain set it. Therefore, dental disease was a common medical problem. 6. Define these terms: Black Land- Land that hugged the Nile and represented life Red Land- was the desert beyond and represented danger Tributaries- a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake Papyrus- water plant Ancient Egyptians used for various items Irrigation- manmade channels supplying water to land to assist in the production of crops and other water necessities.

4. Lake Tana
Lake Victoria

5. Papyrus

6. Desert Edge
Levees would be place here
Irrigation

7. How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt ? DBQ

8. DOCUMENT A
DOCUMENT A
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Egypt circa 1500 BCE

9. Why is the delta region to the North called “Lower Egypt”?
DOCUMENT A
Egypt circa 1500 BCE
Why is the delta region to the North called “Lower Egypt”?
The Nile flows downhill, from south to north
What are the eastern, western, and northern boundaries of Egyptian settlement?
Eastern Desert; Western Desert; the Mediterranean Sea

10. DOCUMENT A
Egypt circa 1500 BCE
Given the geography of this area, was Egypt vulnerable to foreign invaders? Explain
No, because the delta and the Nile River are isolated by their geographical barriers: Sea, deserts, and cataracts
What do you notice about population distribution and settlement location in Ancient Egypt?
List three reasons for this settlement.
Settlement was around the river.
Reasons:
need fresh water for drinking, bathing, and cooking
River was the source for crop irrigation
Nile provided a highway for travel and trade
Provided fish for eating
Provided mud for brick-making

11. DOCUMENT B
DOCUMENT B
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12. DOCUMENT B
What differences do you see between the Egyptian seasons and the standard seasons in much of the United States today?
The Egyptians had three four-month seasons instead of four three-month seasons
Usually the flood season produced a “good Nile,” just the right amount of water. What might be the consequence of a “bad Nile”- too much or too little water?
A very high Nile would drown the crops and possibly destroy whole villages. A low Nile would bring severe drought and cause drastic food shortage

13. DOCUMENT B
The population of Egypt was probably about one million, 95% of whom were farmers. According to this chart, when were farmers the busiest?
During planting (peret) and harvest (shemu) season
When would this large work force of farmers be available to work on government projects, like building palaces and tombs?
During the flood season

14. DOCUMENT C
DOCUMENT C
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15. DOCUMENT C
What is being transported by the barge (the vessel pulled by tugboats)?
Two obelisks, perhaps for a temple
What is likely being carried by the large sailboat?
Possibly it is a mummified body being carried to its burial tomb
What direction are the sailboats, barge, and tugs traveling? Explain your reasoning
They are traveling south. The prevailing winds were out of the north, which means the sailing ships would be pointed in the opposite directions, Also, tug were generally used to pull a barge against the current and the current flowed towards the north.

16. DOCUMENT C
Draw from evidence in the document, what are 5 occupations in Egypt that depended in some way on the Nile River?
Oarsmen and sailors
Boat builders
Sail makers
Fisherman
Farmers who depended on river transport for marketing crops
Government officials who depended on receiving grain as tax payments, which in return paid their salaries
Stone cutters whose market was expanded by river transport

17. DOCUMENT D
DOCUMENT D
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18. DOCUMENT D
The middle panels of this tomb painting show the deceased and his wife engaged in various activities. What kind of activities are they?
Farming: harvesting wheat (panel three)
Plowing, seeding, pulling flax (panel four)

19. DOCUMENT D
What natural and man-made objects can you identify in the bottom three panels?
Panel three: wheat, sickle, basket
Panel four: cattle, plow, basket, flax plants, flail
Bottom panels/Border: The Nile River, with shrubs and date palms along its banks
What would disappear from this picture of paradise if the Nile weren’t present?
Virtually everything! No water, no life, no crops, no animals, no boats, no people

20. DOCUMENT E
Document E
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21. It is a song of praise or thanks, especially to God or a god
DOCUMENT E
What is a hymn?
It is a song of praise or thanks, especially to God or a god
According to the “Hymn to the Nile,” why do the Egyptian people praise the river?
It keeps the land alive ( to produce food)
It floods the fields so that the animals will have food they need to live
It causes barely and wheat to grow
It allows for religious festivals
It makes the people joyful

22. DOCUMENT E
What is the one “bad” behavior of the river that is mentioned? What is the result?
Not enough flooding reduces silt buildup and limits irrigation. This causes famine and poverty
The famous Greek historian Herodotus once wrote that “Egypt…is, so to speak, the gift of the Nile.” What did he mean and was he right?
If it weren’t for the Nile River, The Egyptian civilization would not have arisen. People could not have survived in this desert land without the river.

23. How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt?
DBQ Visual Anaysis
After analyzing five documents about the Nile’s contributions in shaping Ancient Egypt, you will now need to produce a visual document analysis answering the DBQ question for each document.
How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt?

24. How to do this:
Step 1: Answer the DBQ question for each document: How did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt? YOU MUST PROVIDE EVIDENCE from the document to support your statement. (Minimum of 3 sentences for EACH document)
Step 2: Include a summary explaining how all the documents demonstrate contributions the Nile had in shaping Egypt. (Minimum of 5 sentences)
Step 3: Use color pencils, markers, and/or crayons to make your document analysis visually appealing.
Step 4: Cut out all the documents and place them on a given piece of poster paper
***All writing needs to be typed. 12 point font, 1 inch margins, Times New Roman, Double Spaced***

25. Picture Examples of Acceptable Visuals

28. Document D
Document D gives the reader a first-hand depiction of a tomb painting that was found from the tomb of a man who lived between the years of 1307 and 1196 BCE. The image displays how the ancient Egyptians worshipped and found religion within the Nile. It tells a story of a man and his wife tending to crops and animals in their fields, and has parts that represent one of the many gods Egyptians worshipped. The main part that supports the essential question is the border of all the components, which represents the Nile river. These pieces of evidence help answer the question “How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt?” because they give a direct example of how the Nile was the reason that all of the aspects of the painting were able to exist. Without the Nile nothing would have developed. This shows why the Egyptians worshipped and found religion in the Nile. It provided life and everything they had to come to know from their food to their culture.

29. Category
Advanced
Proficient
Basic
Below Basic 1
Analysis
Provides effective analysis of the question; some imbalance permissible
Limited analysis, mostly describes
Weak or inappropriate analysis
No analysis
Document Evidence
Effectively uses evidence within document to support analysis statement
Effectively uses some evidence within document to support analysis statement
Poor use of documents with only brief citation or paraphrase; not enough evidence used to support analysis
Almost no use of or inappropriate attempt of document use in analysis
Grammar and Structure
May contain insignificant errors
May contain minor errors that do not reduce from overall display
May contain major errors
Contains many major or minor errors
Organization/
Writing/
Visual Display
Well organized and well written.
Visual is highly attractive
Clearly organized and written, but not exceptional. Visual display is decent
Weak organization and writing. Visual is messy
Disorganized and poorly written. Did not take time to make display visually appealing
Total:___________/40 points (automatic 10 point deduction for not being typed)