CLAA05H3 Chapter 1: Key terms - Chapter 1 with added description

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Chapter 1 key words: egypt as gift of nile: River nile would cause flood annually leaving behind fertile soil that allowed them to grow crops, and water for drinking and bathing, transportation and creation of paper was also possible. Due to river nile civilization was possible in egypt, and desert all around: upper and lower egypt. Upper egypt (south) ta shemau connects from cairo to aswan (720 km) Lower egypt (north) ta mehu connects from mediterranean sea to cairo (160 km) It was united into a single entity by pharaoh king narmer: sources of nile: white and blue. White nile (source is uganda) is the longer one. Blue nile (source is ethiopia) water and fertile soil: kartoum the capital of egypt where two niles unify and empty into the. Mediterranean sea: nile flows north through the desert the blue and white niles meet and flow north and empty into the mediterranean sea, egypt isolated by natural borders .

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