Test Day!!! Egypt

Today in class, we took a quiz on Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. I feel like I did well on it. I hope I did. We also took notes on Egypt. Below are some of the notes from Egypt.

• Yearly flooding brought water and rich soil.
• when the river receded, it left silt (fertile mud)
• Peasants prepared their wheat and barley fields before the sun could dry it out.
• watered their crops through a network of irrigation ditches
• Egyptians worshipped the Nile as a God, for it gave them an abundance of water.
• Historian Herodotus stated that Egypt was "the gift of the Nile."
• When the Nile's floodwaters were a little lower than usual, the silt and crops were reduced.
• When the Nile's floodwaters were a little higher than usual, the water flooded the houses.
• The hot desert on both sides of the Nile acted as barriers to keep enemies away, yet it trapped the people inside from the outside world.
• Upper Egypt- a skinny strip of land from the first Cataract to where the river starts "branching out."
• Lower Egypt included the Nile delta.
• Delta- marshy region formed by deposits of silt formed at the mouth of the river.
• The king wore a red crown for lower Egypt and a white bowling pin-shaped crown for Upper Egypt. 
• King Narmer was the king for both regions of Egypt.
• Pharaoh- king of ancient Egypt; considered to be a god as well as a political and military leader.
• theocracy- type of government in which rule is based on religious authority.