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• The Nile forms a fertile delta near the Mediterranean Sea

• The Nile flows through desert, mountains and farmland

• Two rivers meet in Sudan

• Two sources—Blue Nile begins in Ethiopia, White Nile begins in East Africa

• World’s longest river

Geography

• In Upper Egypt, scattered farming villages were built along the banks of the Nile

• Farming communities formed in Egypt and Nubia around 5000 B.C. in the delta and valley regions of the Nile

• Settled hunting and fishing communities probably appeared in Nubia around 6000 B.C.

Communities

The Nile River

Section Reading Support HOW 61 Ancient Egypt and Nubia, Section 1

• One overland trade route carried goods from central Africa and Nubia into Egypt through the Nile Valley

• Goods such as gold, silver, copper, fine pottery, and cedar were carried on the trade routes

• Other trade routes ran across the desert to the Red Sea or Mesopotamia

• Ships sailed up and down the Nile to trade goods

Trade

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