HIST 1A Lecture 3: LECTURE 3- EGYPT- OLD KINGDOM.docx
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); jean-francois champollion (1790-1832) cartouche ideograms, phonograms, determinatives. End of the old kingdom and first intermediate period. Mesopotamia rose in fertile crescent watered by tigris and. Egypt depended on single great river, the nile. Nile flows north over six cataracts (a set of rapids) into mediterranean sea. These cataracts of nile go from north to south. It is the unification that marks beginning of egyptian history. Egyptians depended on annual flooding of nile to provide water for crops. Named seasons of year and country with nile river in mind. 3 seasons of egypt: inundation (flooding) june- september, the. Receding of the flood oct-feb, and third the season of drought which was harvest season in april. Even named land after nile: kmt(black land) called black land because soil black when properly flooded by nile. Dsrt (red land) where soil never received water. Nile also vital artery of communication and trade. Egypt naturally unified by nile at least by first cataract.
