Western Civ day 5

Today in class we took a test on Ancient Mesopotamia and took notes on Ancient Egypt.  The test was pretty easy and I feel like I did well on it.  I still don't understand how you can make a 17 question test 75 points though.

Notes on Egypt


The Geography of Egypt 

• To the west of the Fertile Crescent
• Nile River flows for 4,100 miles
• Settlements rose on this river
• river provided water and silt

The gift of the Nile

• river provided silt in same way as Mesopotamia
• crops were planted before sun dried the silt
• villagers used irrigation ditches to water crops
• Nile river was worshiped as a god

Environmental Changes

• Nile river flooding was like clockwork
• when floodwaters were lower, then crop count dropped dramatically
• when floodwaters were higher, then crop count rose dramatically
• the desert acted as natural barriers 
• desert also made it hard to get out of Egypt
• Invaders avoided Egypt

Upper and Lower Egypt

• river travel was common
• people lived in delta as well as inner Africa
• river is south Egypt is called upper Egypt
• river in north is lower Egypt