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Why is it difficult to sail the Nile river in Upper Egypt and Nubia?
Many caravans also traveled through this region. Because of cataracts, people could not travel through Nubia by river.
What is likely being carried by the large sailboat in ancient Egypt?
What is likely being carried by the large sail- boat? Possibly it is a mummified body being carried to its burial tomb.
How was the Nile river used for trade?
Ships sailed up and down the Nile River, bringing goods to various ports. Once goods were unloaded, goods were hauled to various merchants by camel, cart, and on foot. (Donkeys were used by farmers, not traders usually.) The ancient Egyptians bought goods from merchants.
How did access to the Mediterranean Sea Change Egyptian trade?
Access to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea opened Egypt to foreign cultures and influences. Large boats made of wood navigated up the Nile and sailed throughout the region. These boats returned with items that the Egyptians desired. As Egyptian civilization developed, the need grew for better wood.
What did the nomads bring to the trade routes?
They also brought their religion, Islam, which spread along the trade routes. Nomads living in the Sahara traded salt, meat and their knowledge as guides for cloth, gold, cereal, and slaves. Until the discovery of the Americas, Mali was the principal producer of gold.
How did the Hudson’s Bay Company trade with the Indians?
Many independent French Canadian traders (coureurs-des-bois) ignored the Hudson’s Bay Company efforts to prevent others from trading in their territory. To trade their furs to the Hudson’s Bay Company, Indians had to travel long distances to the forts on Hudson’s Bay.
How did ancient Egyptians travel south to North?
Traveling North on the Nile: The ancient Egyptians used the current in the Nile River to travel south to north easily. The Nile River flows south to north, and ends at the Mediterranean Sea. Add steering oars, and suddenly travel south to north was even easier.
Where does the Northwest Passage start and end?
The Northwest Passage spans roughly 900 miles from the North Atlantic north of Canada’s Baffin Island in the east to the Beaufort Sea north of the U.S. state of Alaska in the west. It’s located entirely within the Arctic Circle, less than 1,200 miles from the North [JR1] .