Agriculture in Ancient China and Ancient Egypt

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  1. 2. China started rotating their fields
  2. 6. Farmers grew vegetables and raised these animals in China
  3. 10. North China grew grain, wheat, and _______
  4. 11. Most poor farmers were forced to work on the Great Wall and this canal
  5. 12. In 3000 B.C., the animal pulled plow was invented
  6. 13. About 1000 years before Egypt, the Sahara was filled with forests and grasslands but due to the vegetation being eaten too much it became a desert
  7. 16. Field markers were marked with stone
  8. 17. In Egypt, there were 3 different seasons, the flooding season, the growing season, and this season
  9. 19. The most important crops in Egypt were wheat and a grain used for bread
  10. 20. When there was an agricultural bonus, civilizations thrived
  11. 21. First person to plow the fields, showing that farming was important
  12. 24. Because of the system of locks and dams in the Nile about 5000000-8400000 ______ of land got a portion of water when the Nile river flooded
  13. 25. The ________ river was the center of the Egyptian lifestyle
  14. 26. Most important people in the empire
  15. 27. Pulled carts
  16. 28. Men cut ripe wheat with a crescent shaped knife
  17. 30. Farmers often lived in houses with ________ roofs in China
  18. 32. First animals raised in China were dogs, horses, sheep, goat, chickens, and an animal used for pork
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  1. 1. The Egyptian crop picking depends on the Nile flooding
  2. 2. The Egyptians used these to help with irrigation
  3. 3. The Egyptians created a system of locks and dams to ________ water all around to help irrigation and to keep one part from flooding too much
  4. 4. Basis of Chinese society
  5. 5. Animals trampled seeds and _______ the fields in Egypt
  6. 7. The Nile River rose about _____ when it flooded (over 20 and less than 35 and in Feet)
  7. 8. The first farmers in Egypt ________ a seed in the ground
  8. 9. The hard, wet, _______ soil made farming in Egypt hard
  9. 14. In China, this was used to maintain nutrients in the soil
  10. 15. Farmers were often the __________ people in China
  11. 18. In China, they were labor ___________
  12. 19. In Egypt, this monkey sometimes picked the fruit
  13. 20. The Egyptians invented a device that helped a farmer irrigate his crops and allowed him to carry about 660 gallons of water a day
  14. 22. The Chinese designed this better to till their fields more efficiently
  15. 23. South China grew ________ that thrives in a moist wet climate
  16. 29. The king of Egypt owned all of the land
  17. 31. In China, ________ sometimes farmed for their families due to poverty or religion