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- The Nile at several points, terrain caused cataracts: strong rapids , to form.
- The river divided into several branches that blower out and flowed into the Mediterranean river, it formed a delta, a triangle-shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river.
- Menes was the first Egypt pharaoh, the title used by the rulers of Egypt , in other words it means "great house"
- The pharaoh, Menes was the one who found the first dynasty, a series of rulers from the same family.
- Hunter-gatherer groups moved into the Nile valley more than 12,000 years ago, they found plants, wild plants, and fish to eat.
- The farmers develop the irrigation system, they build basins to collect water and built series of canals when the dry moths came, as they were prepare.
- They grew: wheat, barley, fruits, and vegetable, and raised cattle and sheep.
- The silt from the Nile made the soil ideal for farming.
- For Egyptians rivers flooding were a life-giving miracle. Without them people wouldnt settled in Egypt.
- Lower Egypt because it had typically more valuable, it had more arable land.
- Upper Egypt was in southern region it was upriver in relation of the Nile. Lower Egypt was in northern region was located downriver.