1. Herder – A person who tends flocks of sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, and camels.

2. Physical Features of Egypt and Kush
Why?
Positive aspects?
Negative aspects?
Why is this region called the “gift of the Nile”?
Do you think they had to worry about invaders? Why or why not?
Read and complete R.N. for Section 7.3
Underline or highlight
the five words/phrases
in paragraph
(minimum of 5 sentences)

3. Physical Features of Canaan
Why?
Positive aspects?
Negative aspects?
Could this area support large-scale farming? Why or why not?
How else might people have supported themselves?
Read and complete R.N. for Section 7.3
Underline or highlight the five words/phrases in paragraph

4. Geography and the Early Settlement of Egypt, Kush, and Canaan
Ch. 7
Geography and the Early Settlement
of Egypt, Kush, and Canaan

5. RN 7: Geography of Egypt & Kush
Settle near Mediterranean Sea – food, transportation, trade, saltwater
Nile R. – fish, transportation, trade, fresh water, drink, bathe, vegetation – papyrus (paper, rope, roof, basket)
Nile floods, leaves silt (fertile soil), flat (topography)
Libyan, Arabian, Nubian Desert – natural barrier
Red Sea – saltwater, fish, transportation

6. RN 7 Geography of Canaan
Mediterranean to the west transportation…trade
Not as fertile as Egypt
Climate – dry, topography – hilly, rocky
Herders – nomadic
Jordan R. – fresh water, drink, food, does not flood like the Nile.
Dead Sea – very salty
Sea of Galilee – fresh water lake, fish, animals, transportation