Chapter 7 – geography and early settlement of Egypt, Kush and Canaan – Flashcards
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3 environmental factors to settle land
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Water, topology, and vegetation
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Most important environmental factor
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Water
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Water was a source of ...
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Food (animals, fish and crops)
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Topography
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the surface features of a place or region. The topography of a region includes hills, valleys, streams, lakes, bridges, tunnels, and roads.
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What type of topography is good, and why?
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Flat plains and valleys so they could plant crops
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What type of topography is bad, and why?
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Desert and mountains, dry and desolate and dry and hot - no water
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Vegetation
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all the plant life in a particular region
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How did vegetation influence human settlements?
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Food, Useful products, provided shade
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Nile river
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The world's longest river, which flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea
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Egypt
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In northeast africa, first settled around 3100 CE.
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Kush
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an ancient nubian kingdom whose rulers contolled egypt between 2000 and 350 B.C.
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Mediterranean sea
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the largest inland sea located north of africa
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Nile river
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Most important physical feature in ancient Egypt and kush
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Physical features of Egypt and Kush
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Nile river, fertile valley,desert, mediterranean sea
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Formed natural barriers that protected the people of Egypt and kush
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Libyan and Nubian deserts
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Long channel of very salty body of water to the east of Kush and egypt
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Red Sea
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What was the most important ant environmental factor for settling by the Nile river
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Source of fresh water in a desert area
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How was the Nile river valley a naturally irrigated and fertile?
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Every summer the river overflowed it's banks to irrigate and deposited silt that was perfect for farming
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Name the 7 animals that were abundant in the nile region...
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Fish, ducks, geese, hippos, crocodiles, giraffes, and ostriches
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Why about the topology of the river valley encouraged settlement?
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Wide flat areas around the river bends
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What 2 types of useful plants were plentiful in the Nile valley?
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Reeds and the tough water plant papyrus
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Canaan
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Land NE of Egypt settled by the israelites from 1800 bce - to 70 ce
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Jordan river
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River in SW Asia flows from Lebanon mountains south through the sea of galilee into the dead sea.
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Jordan river flowed through the ________ of Canaan.
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Middle
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Jordan river empties into _______.
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The dead sea
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What desert in Canaan receives more moisture than most desert?
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Negev
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What is The key environmental factor in Canaan?
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Water
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What body of water enabled traders to visit Canaan from many foreign lands?
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The Mediterranean
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What was the main source for water in Canaan?
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The Jordan river.
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Was the Jordan as fertile as the Nile?
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No - it did not flood as often.
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What other body of water in Canaan was an important source of fresh water?
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Sea of galilee
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Why did more people in Canaan become herders rather than farmers?
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Much of the land in Canaan was too hot, dry or hilly for farming.
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What are herders?
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They are nomads that move from place to place to find grasslands where their animals an graze
