The Nile River was essential to ancient Egyptian civilization, providing fertility to the land, food and resources to the people, and a means of transportation. The Egyptians worshipped the Nile god Hapi and thanked him annually when the river flooded its banks between June and September, depositing rich soil. Though now controlled, the seasonal flooding was crucial to the Egyptians' agricultural society along the river banks. The Nile remains the longest river in the world and an important resource for northeast Africa.

1. The Nile.
By Irene Finau.

2. Who?
• Who was the Nile god?
• Hapi was the Nile god; Egyptians thanked Hapi
for bringing fertility to the land. Honouring a
god was very important.

3. What?
• What else did the Nile provide the ancient
Egyptians?
• Reeds called papyrus that grew along the side of
the Nile. Egyptians made paper and boats out of
the reeds.
• The Nile gave them food, helped them travel
from one place to the other making it quicker and
easier for them.
• What was the place near the Nile called?
• The area was known as the black land further on
there was the red land, a region known as
inhospitable desert.

4. Where?
• Where is the longest river found?
• The longest river is the Nile found in Africa
originates in Burundi, south of the equator
flows northward through north-eastern Africa.
Eventually flowing over into Egypt and
draining into Mediterranean Sea.

5. Why?
• Why did the ancient Egyptians live near the river Nile?
• Most Egyptians lived near the Nile because it provided
them with some of their needs having excellent soil
that helped them to grow their food, having water to
drink and food growing.
• Why did the Nile flood?
• Heavy summer rain, melting snow in Ethiopian
mountains had a torrent of water flooding there banks
which caused it to over flow there flat desert land.
• Why doesn’t the Nile flood now?
• The construction in 1960 meant that in 1970 annual
flood was controlled.

6. When?
• When did the Nile flood?
• The Nile flooded every year in June and
September, a season the Egyptians called
akhet – the inundation.

7. Other facts about the Nile.
• Approximately twenty two per cent of the Nile water flows
through Egypt.
• The Nile is the longest river.
• The Nile flows through Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Burundi, and
Egypt.
• Crocodiles in the Nile, most crocodiles are four meters long
some of them have been reported to be bigger than the four
meters.
• The Nile is very important to the Egyptians because it kept
them alive gave them water to drink, bathe and food. Kept
them safe from the other side of the Nile. Gave them papyrus
for paper.
• The ancient Egyptians called the river AR or Aur meaning
black.

8. The Nile power point has ended.
• Thank you for watching my power point hope
you learnt something, that’s the end of it all
thank you.