3. Objectives
Students will be able to discuss the
importance of the Nile River to Egypt.
Students will be able to discuss the
affect that the Sahara Desert has on the
population of Egypt.
CULTURE: Hieroglyphics, Mummies,
Pyramids, Sphinx, King Tut
4. Land
The main river of Egypt,
known as the
___________________ of
Egypt, is the
___________________ which
supplies 85% of the
country’s water supply.
Egypt has three major land
areas.
Nile River Valley
Sinai Peninsula
Desert Areas
7. The Nile The Nile River is the
LONGEST river in the world.
It runs for 4,160 miles.
The Nile River spreads out
into a broad wedge of
farmland called a
_________________, or a
triangle-shaped area of land
at a river’s mouth.
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12. Sinai
Peninsula
This section is not actually
in Africa but is a part of
Southwestern
________________.
This is an extremely
important area that helps to
connect Africa to Asia.
Here you will find the
__________________ which
helps ships pass from the
Red Sea to the
Mediterranean Sea.
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16. Desert
s
West of the Nile River is
the ________________ Desert
that covers 2/3 of Egypt’s
land area.
Just east of the Nile River
lies the _______________
Desert.
Both of these deserts are
parts of the largest desert in
the world, the
___________________, which
is the size of the Unites
States of America
26. Agriculture
Only ______ of Egypt’s land is
good for farming and it lies in
the fertile Nile River Valley.
Farmers grow vegetables,
sugarcane and wheat.
However, cotton is their
___________________. (Crops
grown specifically to sell)
In 1968, the
______________________ was
built to control flooding of the
Nile. This has been helpful for
the people of the area.
27. Industry
The Aswan High Dam
provides hydroelectric
power to Egypt’s industries.
The largest industrial
centers are the capital city,
________________ and the
seaport Alexandria.
Factories mainly produce
food products, textiles, and
______________________, or
household goods.
28. People Most Egyptians live
within ______________ of
the Nile River.
This means that 99% of
Egypt’s population lives
on only 3.5% of the land.
Cairo, the capital, is a
huge city of almost 20
million people and is the
largest city in Africa.
29.
30. City Life
Cairo’s mosques, schools, and
universities make it a leading
center of the Muslim world.
Egypt was the site of one of the
most advanced civilizations in the
world. Ancient Egyptians used
_______________________, or
written picture symbols.
31. Mummies Mummies are a
huge part of the
history of Egypt,
BUT
WHAT ARE THEY??
32.
33. The tomb was robbed
twice.
King Tut became King
at age 9.
Historians believe he
died at age 18 in 1323
BC .
After 3,000 years the
tomb was discovered by
Howard Carter in 1922.
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38. Government Egypt was heavily involved
in the
__________________________.
Eighteen days of mass
protests forced leader Hosni
Mubarak to resign in
February 2011, after three
decades in power.
846 people were killed
during the uprising.
Some analysts say Egypt
has returned to the kind of
police state which the
revolution aimed to remove.
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43. The Great Pyramid of Giza
built 5,000 years ago. It is
the only one of the
ORIGINAL Ancient
Wonders of the World still in
existence.
44. The Great Pyramid of Giza
is more than 450 feet tall.
The Great Pyramid
consists of more than 2.3
million limestone blocks,
each weighing more than
2 tons!
45.
46. The Great Sphinx of Giza is a
statue lion with a human
head near modern-day Cairo.
It is 241 ft long, 20 ft wide,
and 66 feet high. It is thought
that the Sphinx was built
between 2555 BC to 2532
BC.
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49. He Has Been Staring Out Into The Sahara for 5,000 Years
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51. Ticket To Leave
-Think about what you have just
heard. Write down three
statements about it on an index
card.
-Then exchange your responses
with a partner.
-What were the most frequently
mentioned ideas or terms?"
