Thank you all for your prayers and I am feeling much better. Over the last week we have gotten over two feet of snow and since where I live there are no hills at all we have resorted to sliding done the huge snow drifts the plow has made. For my mini homeschool lesson I am going to teach you about the Nile River in Egypt. The Nile River was so important to the Egyptians that they based their seasons on it and they even worshiped it. The three seasons were the flooding season, the planting season, and the harvest season. June through September the Nile River flooded and all planting was stopped so the Nile could fertilize the dry ground. When the waters finally started to dry up the Egyptians dug ditches to hold back the water to use for irrigation. During the flooding season they built houses. October through February was planting season when the Egyptians planted and watered their crops. Then in March and May the ground started to dry up and it was time to harvest the crops. The Nile was also critical for protection because cataracts( places in the river where rocks collect and form waterfalls made it so any enemy trying to attack would have to try to cross the desert which was very risky because of the lack of food and water. This is why the Nile River was important for the Egyptians in ancient Egypt.
Praise God for answering our prayers for your health! Thank you for letting us know.
The Nile is just fascinating, and I love making connections between studying history books about it and reading the Bible accounts about Egypt. Thank you for sharing this latest mini homeschool lesson. I always look forward to your posts!