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Ch. 4 - Sec. 1
The Gift of the Nile
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Nile is the world’s longest river. | |
| It travels from the mountainous land south of Egypt through some of the driest deserts in the world. | |
| More than seventy million people currently live along the banks of the Nile. | |
| The history of the great river also includes the civilizations of ancient Egypt. | |
| The Nile made the ancient Egyptian civilizations possible. | |
| Melting snow from the mountains of East Africa flooded the banks of the Nile. | |
| The silt created excellent topsoil that provided the Egyptians with two or three annual crops. | |
| In what direction does the Nile River flow? | south |