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nile river basin
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40% OF ALL PEOPLE LIVE IN RIVER BASIN -10 COIUNTRIES
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Ten Counries of Nile River Basin
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Egypt Sudan Eritrea Ethiopia
Rep of Congo, Uganda, Kenya Rwanda Burndi, Tanzia |
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Nile River Flows
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North To South
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NRiver crosses
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equator, Tropic of Cancer
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Nile
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white Nile & Blue Nile (2) nBranches
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Nile Floods
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leaves rich silt
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Nile River power
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hydroelectric power
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White Nile
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Lake Victoria, Uganda begins
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confluence
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where rivers cross & meet
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Nile Barriers
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the Cataracts
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Aswan Dam
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Controls Nile
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Aswan formed-----
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Lake Nasssar
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Cairo is ----
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Capital of Egypt
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Six Rivers
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Nile,Amazon,Yangtze, Mississippi,
Yenisey-Angara(asia) Huang-He (Yellow RIVER - aSIA |
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Sahara Desert
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Worlds Largest Desert
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Trade Winds
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Help keep it dry
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Pastoral Nomads
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travel Desert
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Draught
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not enough water
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Ergs
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Seas of Sand that Move
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Regs
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Gravel covered plains
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ANACONDA PLAN
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TAKE OVER MISSISSIPI RIVER
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emancipation procolmation
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FREEING SLAVES FROM BONDAGE
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gETTYSBURGH aDDRESS
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aBE LINCOLN ADDRESS
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Antietam
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bloodiest baddle union failed to take richmond Lee goes to Maryland
9-17-1862 |
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Sherman's March
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North Sherman - marches through South destruction Atlanta savannah columbia Raleigh burning all - mudrer
wrecked Antibellum homes, etc. |
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Vicksburgh Gettysburgh
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1863 May,
july 4 Conferate surrender - Vicksberg Union gained control of MISSISSIPPI River |
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Appamattux
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4-9-1865 ended Grant @& Lee
South Lost Lee South can return home keep weapons keep horses |
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Lincoln
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elected 1860
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Embargo
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cotton- forced Great Brit and other Euro countries, recognize confederacy, they had too much cotton and didn't care. Confed money lost value
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New weapons
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rifled muskat, gattling gun
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Bad tactics of war
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used old rev war tactics walking in a line, etc.
in bad areas, grass, thickets, trees, fields |
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Black people did what???
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fought like the rest
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RAcism still prevalent
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yes
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who held down home front?
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Women
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Civil War lasted ---?
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fouryears
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