1. What is a cataract? Do you think it would be easy to sail a cargo ship through one? 2. What impact do you think the cataracts had on travel and trade throughout Africa?
3. Compare and contrast the Nile’s flood season to the flood season of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
4. What are black land and red land?
5. Did people live in the black land or red land? Why?
6. What role did the Nile play in Egypt’s early development?
7. What techniques did ancient Egyptians use to make their farming more productive?
8. How did kingdoms arise in ancient Egypt?
9. Why is Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north?
10. Why is Egypt often represented by two crowns?
11. What united Upper and Lower Egypt (other than the Nile River)?