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Geography 5 (9)

TermDefinition
fertal productive land
Atlas mountains largest in Africa
Sahara largest desert in the world
Sea Mediterranean
River Nile
Lots of poor people
People Egyptians, Berbers, and Arabs
Aswan High Dam electricity, flood, controls Nile river
Suez Canal trade, and transportation, 1869
Delta fan-shaped, area that good soil builds up at
Resources oil, gas and water
Phosphates used in fertilizers
Aquifers underground rock layers where water collects - are vital
Giver of Life Floods give silt-good moist soil
Taker of Life Floods kill those unprepared
Papyrus first paper
Nile desert around, water is essential
Pyramids blocks of stone, tombs for the dead
Afterlife Egyptians believed in afterlife
Christians in Egypt 10%
Coptic Christians in Egypt, still have to wear specific clothes
rural country
urban city
SOUKS open-air markets
FELLAHEEN lower class
COUSCOUS steamed wheat
Muslim influence HUGE!
Arabic Language Dominant
Literacy reading
Constitution written laws
Libya and Algeria in Civil Wars
Egypt and U.S. friends
Ancient Pharaohs
After Kingdoms - 1922 Ruled by British
1922 - today more woman rights
Abdel Nasser republic, army officer, 1952
Cotton big, since the 1860's
Egypt has given _____ a number of rights women
Created by: St.Lorenz
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