Download Section 1 - Warren County Schools

Bellringer
• Complete the If YOU were there…. Section on
page 4. You can write your answer below the
question: Why do you like living in the Nile
Valley?
Field Trip Info
• Date of field trip:
November 24th
• Permission Slips
and money due by
November 6th: WILL
NOT BE ACCEPTED
AFTER THIS DATE!
Academic requirements:
• Students will be passing all classes with at
least a grade average of a D or higher (No
F’s) - (Grades will be checked on one week
prior to the field trip on Nov. 17th )
• Students may not have any missing
assignments in their classes. This includes
homework assignments!
Behavior Requirements:
• Meet the requirements for the No Referral
Challenge listed below:
• Have 3 or less combined minor referrals
(tardies, disrupting class, unprepared for
class, etc) in all classes
• Have No MAJOR referrals
• Have NO TIP or ISS Placements
• Have no suspensions or ASP placements.
Nile River
• Geography played a key role in the
development of Egyptian civilization.
• The Nile River brought life to Egypt. The river
was so important to people in this region that
the Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt
“the gift of the Nile.”
Location and Physical features
• The Nile is the longest river in the world. It begins in
central Africa and runs 4,000 miles north to the
Mediterranean sea.
• Egyptian civilization developed along a 750 mile stretch
of the Nile in northern Africa.
• Ancient Egypt had two regions the northern and
southern.
• The southern part was called Upper Egypt. This is
because it was located upriver in relation to the Nile’s
flow.
• The northern part was called Lower Egypt and was
located down river.
• The Nile sliced through the desert of Upper
Egypt. There, it created a fertile river valley
about 13 miles wide. On either side of the Nile
lay hundreds of miles of desert.
• The Nile River flowed through very rocky
terrain. At several points, this terrain caused
cataracts, or strong rapids to form.
• In lower Egypt, the Nile divided into several
branches that fanned out and flowed into the
Mediterranean Sea. These branches form a
delta, a triangle-shaped area of land made of
soil deposited by a river.
The Floods of the Nile
• Each year, rainfall far to the south of Egypt in the
highlands of east Africa caused the Nile to flood.
• The Nile floods were easier to predict than those of the
Tigris and Euphrates. The floods would hit Upper Egypt
around midsummer and Lower Egypt in the fall. This
coated the land around the river with rich silt.
• The silt from the Nile made the soil ideal for farming.
They called their country the black land and the dry,
lifeless desert beyond them the red land.
• Without the floods, people never could have settled in
Egypt.
Civilization Develops Along the Nile
• Read page 6 & complete the questions on
page 9