The Nile river.!
Egypt
Transportation and trade
- Nile was there highway
- They trade with Middle Eastern kingdoms for silver, cedar, oils, horses, copper, and lapis lazuli
-sailboats: the sailboats they used sails going South, rowed with current going North
-Nile provided water for drinking, bathing, cooking, ect
Daily Life
Daily life/making
-The Egyptians planted Papyrus. And made them unto baskets, sandals, rope, and writing material
-Groups on men hunted hippos fir sport and meat.
-Wealthy families built garden pools and stocked with
lotuses and fish.
-Upper class hunted birds in papyrus marshes.
Daily Life/Homes
The Egyptians made there houses out of mud bricks, and mortar!
Physical features
-the Nile is the worlds largest river : 4,135 miles!
-the Nile flows from the South to the North
Calendar/Farming
-farming year (and calendar) divided into 3 seasonsinundation (flood), emergence (planting and growing) and Harvest
-flooding was gentle and left a layar rich, black soil
-water was lifted from the NIle into irrigation canals with a shaduf