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  • Sophie, Nile
    Annual floods
  • shrinking, climate change
  • Provided necessities
  1. food: fish, more animals will wander/live near a water source, plants
  2. drinking
  3. cleaning
  4. irrigation: makes money and food
  • Ancient sea formed into mediterranean sea when earth plates shifted. later created the shape of what is now the nile
  • Upper nile has 3 tributaries, white(flows from lake victoria, edward, and george), blue (ethiopian mountains), Atbara (ethiopian highlands).
  • Created four smaller tributaries before it flows into mediterranean sea
  • Surrounded by eastern and western desert
  • The Nile River is the longest river in the world. It runs south to north, beginning in the mountains in the south and ending 4,000 miles later at the Mediterranean Sea
Patrick-How they use the geography to their advantage

Sheridan- Random Stuff
  • Most of the population worked on the land
  • King in theory owned all of the land
  • Native woods included Palm Trunks
"Handbook To Life In Ancient Egypt"
  • It is nearly one and one-half times the size of Texas.
  • Without the Nile River, all of Egypt would be desert.
  • This fertile land is completely covered with farms.

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/egypt/#egypt-pyramids.jpg

Sites-
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/egypt/nile.htm#top -sophia
All these websites are about the nile and its benefits along with quick facts

jacob-
__http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcgeo2e.shtm l__-Jacob





This talks about geography about egypt.


Here is my research-
  • lived by Nile for fertile land and farm areas 1st Site
  • red deserts used for travel as well as over the Nile 2nd Site
  • use reeds for papyrus 3rd Site
  • made tombs underground in desert 3rd Site
  • used mud bricks to make houses 1st Site
  • Drinking, cleaning, housing, Irrigation, etc 2nd Site

__http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcgeo2e.shtm l__-jacobIt is nearly one and one-half times the size of Texas.http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/egypt/#egypt-pyramids.jpg