Egypt+-+Geography

Geography Nile - longest river in the world - 4000 miles long - sources = Blue & White Nile Rivers - ends in Mediterranean Sea

Nubia & the Nile - S-curve  - 1000 miles - 6 cataracts  -- between 1st & 2nd = Lower Nubia  not great farmland  desert & granite mountains  -- between 2nd & 6th = Upper Nubia  2 miles/ side of farmland

Egypt & the Nile <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- 700 miles <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- 6 miles/ side of farmland <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- delta had great fertile soil (silt)

<span style="color: #1d9913; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 250%;">Nile= life-giving & life-taking

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Black Land = Kemet <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- rich soil -> silt <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- located on the delta

<span style="color: #f40b35; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Red Land = "Land of the Dead" <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- desert <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- place for burials (pyramids) <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- offered protection from invasions