Ancient Egypt
Geography

• egyptian life is centered around the nile river
• the nile river flows south to north
• 3 different rivers converge into 1 river to create the nile
• the nile is the longest river in the world 
• water for drinking, for irrigation, for bathing, and for transportation
• first to invent the sail boat
• every july it floods
• every october it leaves behind rich soil (silt)
• the delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt
• manging the river required technoloical break throughs in irrigation

Pyramids

• The Great Sphinx of Giza
• bulit in 2555-2532BC
• a recombent lion with human's head
• oldest monumental statue in the world

Daily life