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15 Cards in this Set
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Six rock-filled rapids
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Cataract
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Rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river
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Silt
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The place at the mouthh of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle
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Delta
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Greek author who travled thought the known world; wrote about wars between Grece and Persia in the History; the first historical worker of ancient times
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Herodotus
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An ancient region in northeastern Africa that extended from the Nile Valley in Egypt to present day Sudan, specifically between the second and sixth cataracts
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Upper Nubia
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An ancient region in nothern Africa extending from the Nile Valley in Egypt to present day Sudan, specifically between the first and second Nile cataracts
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Lower Nubia
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An area in ancient Egypt, in the northern Nile River region
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Lower Egypt
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An area in ancient Egypt in the Nile Valley, south of the river's delta and 30th nothern parallel
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Upper Egypt
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Two main sources...
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Blue Nile & White Nile
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Rough Nile...
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Blue Nile
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Calm Nile...
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White Nile
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Khartoum is where...
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The Blue and White Nile meet.
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Nile empties into the...
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Mediterrean Sea
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The Nile forms a...
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Delta
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Gift of the Nile is...
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Egypt
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