How did the different ecology in the regions of Egypt affect its development?
What will be an ideal response?
A. North
1. Nile empties into the Mediterranean
2. food sources and useful plants complemented what farmers could grow in the irrigated lands to the south
3. marshlands had birds, animals, fish, and plants clustered for the gatherer and hunter
4. lotus and papyrus plants inspired carvers to decorate pillars
5. thickets of rushes and papyrus provided rope and writing paper
B. South above the delta
1. upriver as the rocky rapids called cataracts
2. floods fed the fertile, alluvial black strip along the Nile; slowly drying red desert lay on either side
3. levels of flooding could mean feast or famine
4. belief that river was controlled by gods
5. Nile flood waters wereexceptionally regular and, therefore, easy to exploit
6. strips of cattle-raising grasslands lay between floodplain and desert
7. renewed topsoil grew some of the densest concentrations of wheat in the ancient world
C. surplus in regions made trade easier
1. greater quantities of the basic products of the economy than Egyptians could eat
2. timber and courtly luxuries see in exhibits on ancient Egypt came from trade, raids, and conquest
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