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What stretched out on each side of the riverbank in lower Egypt?
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Dry deserts
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What happens at end of the Nile in the North?
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The river splits into several streams that flow to the Mediterranean Sea
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What are the streams that flow into the Mediterranean Sea called?
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The delta - the streams form an area shaped like a triangle
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What does the delta contain?
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Very fertile farmland
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Where does silt come from?
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Every spring in the highlands of Africa water came rushing down, as these waters flowed they brought fertile rich soil
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How did the silt get deposited on the land?
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Every spring the Nile spilled over its banks - this made ideal farming conditions
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Who did the Egyptians praise because of the ideal farming conditions?
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Hapi - the God of the Nile
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What was the Egyptians prayer to Hapi?
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Hail to you, O Nile, who flows from the Earth and comes to keep Egypt alive
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What is an example of a Modern dam?
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Aswan High Dam
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What do these modern dams do?
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Built to control flooding, while still providing water for irrigating crops
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What did the Ancient Egyptians call their land?
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Kemet - the Black land - because of the dark soil left by the Nile's floods
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What was varying about the Egyptian flood waters?
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The timing of the floods and the height of the flood waters
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What did the Mesopotamians have that the Egyptians usually didn't have to worry about?
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Flash floods
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What could cause an Egyptian famine?
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Dry years without any flood waters- they were rare but still a possibility
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What lake was created by building a dam on the Nile in the 1960's?
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Lake Nasser
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