Egypt's Three Seasons and the Nile Flood

Use Egypt's Three Seasons and the Nile Flood to introduce river civilizations, then the dynastic cycle for China. Save Hammurabi's Prologue as a Primary Source for students ready to question a source.

Match Egypt's three seasons to farm tasks and read a nilometer of Nile flood levels. The directions on the page read: Read the text. Then write low, good or too high in each box on the nilometer. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 7th grade Ancient History, and it works the same at home or at school. At home, a student can work through it alone and then go over it with you, which shows quickly what is solid and what needs another look. In class it works as independent practice, homework or a warm-up, and you can print one copy or a full set.

It was the idea that Heaven gave a just ruler the right to rule and could take it away. Floods, famine and revolts were read as signs that a ruling family had lost it.

Akhet was the flood, Peret was the growing season and Shemu was the harvest. Each season lasted four months. Egypt's Three Seasons and the Nile Flood matches farm tasks to each.

It is a record from the time being studied. Hammurabi's Prologue as a Primary Source uses excerpts from a stele that carried nearly 300 laws and asks what the monument can and cannot prove.