Chapter 3 Study Questions
1. Where is the Nile River located?
2. How many miles does the Nile River cover?
3. Where does the Nile River start and end?
4. What is the world's longest river?
5. What is desertification? Explain what this term means to the Nile River valley?
6. What happened to the people of this region?
7. What is a delta? What does the word delta mean to the Nile River near the Mediterranean Sea?
8. Who grew their own food during 6000 B.C.?
9. What helped the early farmers begin their agriculture?
10. What crops did the people grow in the Nile River Valley?
11. What was the name given to the land on the delta along the valley?
12. Why was this name given to the land?
13. What was the land around the Kemet called?
14. What is Kemet known as today?
15. Explain the way the Nile gave the people good farmland.
16. Explain the agriculture process in the Nile River valley.
17. How many harvests could the people of the Nile River valley depend on?
18. How did the people predict when the Nile would flood?
19. Explain the Egyptian calendar.
20. What was known as Inundation?
21. What was known as Emergence?
22. What was known as Harvest?
23. What were some of the irrigation methods?
24. Explain the story of the sun.
25. Who was Osiris?
26. Who was Horus?
27. Who was Re? Explain the story of Re.
28. What is a cataract?
29. Name the two regions of Egypt.
30. Who was the King that united Egypt?
31. Why do some historians believe Narmer united Egypt?
32. Why was the uniting of Egypt important?
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