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=Ancient Egypt=

From Liam Lepik and Connor Mason = = = Overview =

Ancient Egypt, also known as the Egyptian Empire, was an ordered community that began around 3,100 BC and lasted a long time until 20 BC when it got invaded by the Roman Empire. It was located in Egypt specifically growing along the [|Nile river] and had the most power around the second millennium BC. During one period of time it went all the way from the Nile delta to Nubia, a kingdom in which modernly is in the parts of [|Sudan]. Egypt, according to history recordings, was a rich country due to the fact that the Nile River supplied the Egyptians with suitable water for drinking and allowed them to have rich fertile crops. The Egyptians had a unique way of writing using hieroglyphics, which is the form of drawing pictures on the caves where they represent stories in a creative way. The Egyptians also built great historical temples and tombs, as well as traded with other areas and had a large powerful army.

= Content =
 * ====Overview====
 * ====Climate and Geography====
 * Water
 * Deserts
 * Mountains
 * Climate
 * ====Adapt and Manage the Environment====
 * ====Modern Lessons====
 * ====Images====
 * ====Reference====
 * ====Bibliography & Links====

= Climate and Geography =

__Water__

I bet that you, like most people, believe that Egypt is a very dry place that is just a scorching hot desert that stretches on for miles and miles. That is somewhat true and also somewhat not true. Egypt, infact has a lot of water resources and one of its largest resources is the great Nile River. The Nile River is not like most rivers. It goes south and north and then it empties in the Mediterranean Sea which is North of Egypt. The Nile River is and exceptionally long river, it is around 1,545 km in length. Every year, the river floods the lands and enriches the soil and this is very important for farmers. Another really cool thing about the Nile is that the Egyptians use it as a clock to see what time of year it was. Egypt has another source of water, the Red Sea, which is an inland sea. The Red Sea is about 169,000 square miles and its width is 190 miles long. The depth of the Red Sea is 9,800 feet. Egypt's water sources doesn't just end there. Lake Nasser is another source of water in Egypt. The lake goes south across the Sudan border. It is around 480 km long and it is 16km wide. Around 2/3 of Lake Nasser is in Egypt.



__Deserts__

Egypt is known for its deserts and also its structures like the pyramids built a long time ago. One of the deserts in Egypt is the Sahara desert and it is the biggest desert in Egypt. The Sahara is covered in rocks, sand and gravel. It is almost the size of the United States of America. The Sahara desert is around three and a half million square miles and is 3, 000 miles long going from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. The Sahara Desert is located in the northwest part of Egypt. Another one of Egypt's deserts is the Western Desert. The Sahara desert may be the biggest desert in all of Egypt, but the Western Desert is one of the driest deserts on Earth. The elevation of the Western Desert is over 3, 300 feet in the southwest. The last desert I'm going to list is the Libyan Desert in Egypt. The Libyan desert is mostly just dunes.



__Mountains__

Egypt is also very mountainous. One mountain in Egypt is Mount Shaiyb, a mountain that is 7, 718 feet tall above the sea level. The highest peak of Egypt is the Jebel Katherina located in the Musa Mountains which is a mountain in Southern Sinai. Jebel Katherina is 8, 655 feet in height (from the sea level). There are many more mountains in Egypt like Jebel Hamada, Jebel Yelleq, and Jebel Gharib.

__Climate__

Egypt is known for having an extremely hot and dry climate. Egypt has only two seasons in a year. In the summer, it is excruciatingly hot and in the winter it is mild (not so cold). Summers in Egypt last from May to October and the average temperature is 95 degrees Fahrenheit. This may be one of the reasons why the Egyptians houses have open windows without glass to let air in. The winters in Egypt are really warm. In Egypt, winter lasts from the month of November to April. In Egypt, the average temperature during the winter is 48 degrees Fahrenheit. In the winter, there was more rain in the winter than the summer. This may be difficult for houses in Egypt because some are made from clay and the houses might not have enough strength to survive the winter.

= Environmental Adaptations =

Most of the ancient Egyptians lived or were tied to their land. Their homes/dwellings were made for only immediate family members, and were constructed of [|mud-brick] created to stay cool in the heat of the day. With this, they were able to live in the dry heat but withstand the harsh conditions. The ancient Egyptians cared a lot about there hygiene and appearance. Because back then, there wasn't nearly the great technology we have today most bathed/swam in the Nile and used a thick, pasty soap that was made from animal fat and chalk. Since Egypt at the time and still modernly was so luscious due to the water fertilized the soil, the Egyptians put a great amount of reliability on their crops where it would supply them with fruits, vegetables, and in some areas they would reproduce animals for materials and food. Clothing was made from simple linen sheets that were bleached white for the extreme heat to rebound the sun rays. Both men and women of the higher rankings wore wigs, jewelry, makeup, and cosmetics. Children went without clothing until the age of about 12, and at this time males were circumcised and had their heads shaved. Mothers were responsible for taking care of the children, while the father provided the family's income in a usual hardworking job.

= Modern Lessons =

= = In early times, the Egyptians learned to use the Nile river for arrogating the dry and barren desert. They were able to grow many different types of crops to feed their people. Without arrogation the Egyptian civilization wouldn't really exist. In many countries today, this type of arrogation is used to bring fresh water to arid farmland to feed large populations, in countries such as Africa and India. Egyptians built huge public buildings such as [|temples]. To build these, massive amounts of rock had to be moved from the quarries. To do this, the Egyptians used barges on the Nile river. Today, many goods are carried on barges all over Europe from one large city to another. This is a very environmentally friendly way to move goods. Building materials back then were hard to gather, due to the absence of rain and the few amounts of wood. Since the sunshine was very common the perfect material for building homes would be adobe, a mix of dry, sticky when wet, hard when dry mud. Today, people have made modifications on that type of building block, such as cement, concrete, and asphalt.

This is the Nile River where transported goods would be carried over (below). These Egyptian Pyramids were created from transported rocks from the quarries (above). =Bibliography=

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