Ancient Egypt
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Geography Questions
These are the questions I ask the people:
Q: How does the geography of this place affect you?
A: The Nile River is a big impact on us. It provides a water source for irrigation. When it floods it provides silt that would wash on shores and fertilize fields. It also provides a food source of fish and a route for transportation. In addition to the river the desert also affects Egypt. The desert keeps out invaders.
Q: How is the geography of Egypt help your agriculture develop?
A: The Nile river provides irrigation for crops. Also when The Nile floods it washes silt on to its shores fertilizing the agriculture.
Q: Why is The Nile River important to you?
The Nile is the only thing keeping our homes from being a barren wasteland. It brings life and keeps our crops growing. The water is sacred. It also provides a mode of transportation.
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Q: How are you protected by your physical environment?
A: The Nile River keeps the land alive. Without it our home would be a place where nobody could survive. Also the limestone cliffs that rise above the river are like walls, protecting it from danger. The desert at the east and west holds invaders back, stoping them from attacking us.
Q: How does the flooding of The Nile affect you?
A: When The Nile River floods it brings rich, black earth that is fertile for growing crops. If it floods to much villages could be washed away leaving behind ruins. This is why our supreme ruler works it out with the gods to keep our homes safe. This is also why we record and watch The Great River very frequently.
Hymn To The Nile
c. 2100 BCE
These are the last two paragraphs:
O inundation of the Nile, offerings are made unto you, men are immolated to you, great festivals are instituted for you. Birds are sacrificed to you, gazelles are taken for you in the mountain, pure flames are prepared for you. Sacrifice is metle to every god as it is made to the Nile. The Nile has made its retreats in Southern Egypt, its name is not known beyond the Tuau. The god manifests not his forms, He baffles all conception.
Men exalt him like the cycle of the gods, they dread him who creates the heat, even him who has made his son the universal master in order to give prosperity to Egypt. Come (and) prosper! Come (and) prosper! O Nile, come (and) prosper! O you who make men to live through his flocks and his flocks through his orchards! Come (and) prosper, come, O Nile, come (and) prosper!