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Egypt
Chapter 3 Section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cataract | a rock-filled rapid in a river |
| delta | the place at the mouth of a river where it splits into streams to form an area shaped like a triangle |
| silt | rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river |
| Herodotus | Greek author who traveled throughout the known world; wrote about the wars between Greece and Persia in the History, the first major historical work of ancient times |
| Upper Egypt | an area in ancient Egypt in the Nile Valley, south of the river's delta and the 30th northern parallel |
| Lower Egypt | an area in ancient Egypt, in the northern Nile River region |