Chapter 7 Geography and Settlement of Ancient Egypt

Chapter 7: Geography and Settlement of Ancient Egypt, Kush, and Canaan

Vocabulary Can you DBQ? Geography Ancient Civilizations Water, water everywhere 10 10 10 20 20 20 30 30 30 40 40 40 50 50 50

Vocabulary – 10 Points QUESTION: • What is papyrus? ANSWER: • Tough water plant, used to make paper in ancient times

Vocabulary– 20 Points QUESTION: • What is a delta? ANSWER: • An area of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river

Vocabulary– 30 Points QUESTION: • What is a nomad? ANSWER: • Someone who travels from place to place with no established home.

Vocabulary– 40 Points QUESTION: • What are tributaries? ANSWER: • Small streams that flow into a larger ‘parent’ river

Vocabulary– 50 Points QUESTION: • What is topography? ANSWER: • The surface features of a place or region ( elevation), such as mountains.

Can you DBQ? – 10 Points QUESTION: • What does DBQ stand for? ANSWER: • Document Based Question

Can you DBQ? – 20 Points QUESTION: • Where does the punctuation belong when using parenthetical citations? ANSWER: • Outside the parentheses

Can you DBQ? – 30 Points QUESTION: • This is the main claim of your essay, also called chickenfoot or your road map. ANSWER: • Thesis Statement

Can you DBQ? – 40 Points QUESTION: • What is in the cream of the OREO cookie sandwitch? (3 main things) ANSWER: • Transition, evidence, and citation

Can you DBQ? – 50 Points QUESTION: • What is the analytical question asked by one of the two DBQs we have done so far? ANSWER: • Hammurabi’s Code: Was it Just? OR How did the Nile River shape Ancient Egypt?

Geography – 10 Points QUESTION: • What major river runs through Egypt? ANSWER: • Nile River

Geography – 20 Points QUESTION: Africa and ancient Egypt is mostly what physical feature? ANSWER: • desert

Geography – 30 Points QUESTION: • What are the names of the two deserts on the east and west of the Nile? ANSWER: • Libyian and Nubian

Geography– 40 Points QUESTION: • What body of water lies east of the Nile River, between modern day Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula? ANSWER: • Red Sea

Geography– 50 Points QUESTION: • Name two of the three bodies of water in ancient Canaan ANSWER: • Jordan River, Sea of Galilee, Dead Sea

Ancient Civilizations – 10 Points QUESTION: • Every year with the yearly flood of the Nile, what was deposited that left the soil fertile, and good for growing crops? ANSWER: • Silt

Ancient Civilizations– 20 Points QUESTION: • Besides foods such as wheat, barley, vegetables, and fruit, what often got in every Egyptian meal? ANSWER: • Sand!

Ancient Civilizations– 30 Points QUESTION: • Ancient Egypt had 3 seasons, what was the harvesting season also know as? ANSWER: • Shemu

Ancient Civilizations– 40 Points QUESTION: • What is the difference between the Jordan River in Canaan and the Nile River in ancient Egypt? ANSWER: • The Nile floods every year.

Ancient Civilizations– 50 Points QUESTION: • What desert lies east of the Jordan River in ancient Canaan? ANSWER: • Syrian Desert

Water, water everywhere– 10 Points QUESTION: • The Nile River flows into the…. ANSWER: • Mediterranean Sea

Water, water everywhere– 20 Points QUESTION: • Every year the Nile flooded, which divided up Egypt into how many seasons? ANSWER: • three

Water, water everywhere– 30 Points QUESTION: • The Nile River flows from two smaller rivers, what are there names? • ANSWER: • White and Blue Nile

Water, water everywhere– 40 Points QUESTION: • Besides size, what is the difference between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sea of Galilee ANSWER: • Sea of Galilee was freshwater

Water, water everywhere– 50 Points QUESTION: • Approximately how many inches of rain does the Nile delta receive every year? ANSWER: • 4 inches