How Did The Nile Shape Ancient Egypt

DBQ Day 1Windy Mulder

Horizon Middle School

Good Morning!

Please write today’s agenda in your planner

Warm Up Question:

Write down the relative location of Egypt What is it near?

Can you name any landforms around it?

What continent is it on?

Finding a New Homeland

Egyptian History Timeline

2920-2575 BCEEarly Dynastic

Period: The first pharaohs unify

Egypt into a powerful kingdom

2575-2134 BCE Old Kingdom: Big

advances in technology and architecture;

pyramids built in Giza

2040-1640 BCE Middle Kingdom:

Egypt’s population,

religion, and arts flourish

1550-1070 BCE New Kingdom: Egypt

expands into Syria and Nubia; international

trade routes established

712-332 BCE Late Period:

Persians invade and annex Egypt

332-304 BCE Alexander the Great

defeats Persians; establishes new

capital in Egypt called Alexandria

30 BCE Egypt falls to

Roman Empire

Vocabulary

Black Land: the fertile area fed by the Nile where the soil is rich

Red Land: the deserts to the east and west of the Nile

Tributaries: rivers and streams that flow into a larger “parent” river

Papyrus: a plant with fibrous inner stems used to make paper

Irrigation: diverting water to farmland using ditches, canals and pipes