Ancient Egypt and Kush Overview: Notes Geography of Ancient Egypt and Kush Where were Ancient Egypt and Kush? Ancient Egypt was located in Northeast of Africa along the Nile River Kush was a kingdom that also lived along the Nile River and was located South of Ancient Egypt in a land called The Nile River is traditionally considered the river in the with a length of over 4,000 miles, and made civilization possible in Egypt and Nubia. Where is the Nile River? ● The Nile River is made up of two tributaries that met in Nadia, which is in the modern-day country of Sedan. O A tributary is a small river that flows into a larger river. O The Nile starts at in the modern-day country of Tanzania. 0 The Nile starts at of Ethiopia. in the modern-day country • The Nile in the It to the near the modern-day city of Khartoum, Sudan. where it ends at the Mediterranean Sea. What are the features of the Nile River? (2 slides) • The Southern boundar was at a Was at a Cataract near the modern-day city of Cataract: section of the Nile River with and terrain O This cataract was also known as the the unofficial boundary between which marked and The was at the river into several smaller branches and emptied into the Mediternanan where the Nile separated Sea. is deposited at the O Delta: fan-shaped region created when end of a The Nile carried from the beginning of the. and

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