Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography, topography
and resources of Egypt and
its neighbours
- The Nile (Iteru)
- Three Seasons
- Akhet - inundation
- Peret - planting
- Shemu - harvest
- Main form of transportation
- Cataracts formed natural boundary
- Herodotus called Egypt
"the gift of the Nile"
- Provided natural resources -
mud for bricks, papyrus for
paper
- Source of drinking water
- Two Lands
- Black Land (Kemet)
- Upper Egypt (Ta-Shema) -
narrow river valley
- Lower Egypt (Ta-Mehu) -
fertile Delta
marshlands
- Upper and Lower Egypt
created the "two lands"
- Red Land (Deshret) - Desert and cliffs
- Resources
- Crops
- Barley
- Emmer
- Vegetables
- Onions
- Cucumbers
- Lettuce
- Fruits
- Grapes
- Figs
- Animals
- Sheep
- Goats
- Semi-precious Stones
- Amethyst
- agate
- Carnelian
- Metals
- Copper
- Gold
- Natron
- Reeds
- Papyrus
- Flax
- Neighbours Resources
- Lebanon
- Cedar
- Nubia
- Gold
- Ivory
- Baboons
- copper
- Sinai
- Turquoise
- Copper
- Malachite
- Palestine
- Cedar
- Silver
- Punt
- Incense
- Resin
- Ebony
- Afghanistan
- Lapis lazuli
- Naharin
- Oil
- Incense
- copper
- Gold
- The Mediterranean
- Olive Oil