Discovering Egypt

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Discovering Egypt
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Egypts

• Africas second largest country in population
• Capital, Cairo, largest city in Africa
• Nile River and Suez Canal are most important
  waterways
• Nile River and Suez Canal inhabited by
  ninety-nine percent of population
• People mostly Arabs
• People, government, and businesses united by
  Islam beliefs

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eg.html
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Egypts Government
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City Dwellers

• Cities over crowded
• Traffic slow and congested
• Inadequate public transportation
• People exhibit extremes of wealth and poverty
• Insufficient housing
• Various jobs

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Food

• Villagers and poor city dwellers
• Bread
• Ful (broad beans)
• Vegetables
• Affluent city dwellers
• Variety of foods
• Imported foods
• Drinks
• Coffee and tea
• Goat, sheep, and buffalo milk

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Peasants

• Make meager living
• Crops and livestock
• Live as ancestors
• Most live along Nile River and Suez Canal
• Homes are mud brick huts
• Rent land or work as laborers

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Bedouin

• Nomads wander in desert
• Herd camels, sheep, and goats
• One percent of population

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Egypts Population
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Education

• Less than 50 adult literacy
• Children
• Required by law to attend until 14 years old
• 50 go on to high school
• 20 go on to higher education
• Free elementary and high school education
• Problems with
• Overcrowding
• Under funding
• Shortages
• Teachers and school buildings

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Gross Domestic Product
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Gross Domestic Product
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Egypts Land

• Four major land regions
• Nile Valley and Delta
• Western Desert
• Eastern Desert
• Sinai Peninsula

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Nile Valley and Delta

• Along Nile River
• Delta north of Cairo
• Egypts farmland
• Floods deposit fertile soil
• Used for
• Irrigation
• Transportation

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Cruise The Nile
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Western and Eastern Desert

• Western Desert
• Covers two thirds of Egypt
• Large sandy plateau
• Part of Sahara Desert
• Small villages by oasis
• Eastern Desert
• Arabian Desert
• Sandy plateau and rocky hills
• Mostly uninhabited

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Sinai Peninsula

• Flat northern coastal plain
• Central limestone plateau
• Southern mountains
• Desolate land with oil deposits
• Inhabited

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Egypts Amazing Pyramids
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