EGYPT 



1972 



EGYPT 



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Outline and Questions on 

 Egypt 



Outline 



I. Location and Size 



(1) Latitude and longitude 



(2) Boundaries 



(3) Greatest length and breadth 

 Actual area 

 Comparative area 



II. Physical Feature* 

 Lower Egypt 

 Upper Egypt 

 Desert regions 



(4) The all-important Nile 



III. Industries 



(1) The chief industry agriculture 



(a) Where carried on 



(b) Products 



(c) Irrigation 



(2) Manufacturing 



(3) Mining 



IV. Transportation and Commerce 



(1) The Nile as a waterway 



(2) Railroads 

 Roads 



Growth in commerce 



V. The People 

 Characteristics 

 Mode of life 

 Education 

 Religion 

 Different races 



VI. History and Government 

 (1) Ancient Egypt 



Foreign domination 



Effect of War of the Nations 



Government 



(a) Part taken by Great Britain 



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Questions 



How large a percentage of the babies 

 of the natives live past their infancy? 



How carefully must land in the irri- 

 gated districts be cultivated in order to 

 yield? 



What justice is there in calling Egypt 

 the "nursery of the world's civiliza- 

 tion"? 



What is taught in the native schools 

 of this country? 



Of what important principle of art 

 did the ancient Egyptians show no 

 knowledge ? 



What gave Great Britain its first 

 hold on Egypt? 



What effect does an Egyptian's re- 

 ligion have on his cleanliness? 



Tell the interesting story of the de- 

 cipherment of ancient Egyptian writing 

 by means of the Rosetta Stone. 



Describe a typical native village. 



Who was the most famous ruler 

 Egypt ever had? 



What has the national character had 

 to do with the political history of 

 Egypt? 



Why is the country called "the gift 

 of the Nile"? 



To how many countries has Egypt 

 belonged? 



Who are the fellahs t How large a 

 part of the population consists of them? 



Who were the Shepherd kings? 



What part did Kitchener play in the 

 history of Egypt? 



What religious belief did the em- 

 balming of. the dead grow out of? 



Who was "Chinese Gordon"? What 

 did he have to do with Egypt? 



and progressive ruler did much for the coun- 

 try, seconding every suggestion which Great 

 Britain made for its improvement, and under 

 the highly capable guidance of Lord Cromer, 

 Egypt has been practically remade econom- 

 ically. 



Recent Events. The nationalists have not 

 been satisfied. They have struggled constantly 

 for independence, one of their measures hav- 

 ing been the presentation, in 1906, of a monster 

 petition to the visiting Prince of Wales, beg- 

 ging for the removal of Great Britain's control. 

 An Egyptian prime minister was assassinated, 

 outbreaks occurred in all the large towns, and 

 in 1912 a plot for the assassination of Kitch- 

 ener, the viceroy, w^.s discovered. By his well 

 worked-out constitutional reforms, however, 

 Kitchener did much to quiet the disorder. 



In 1914, after the outbreak of the War of 

 the Nations, Egypt was put in a state of war 

 under protection of Great Britain, and, in the 

 main, feeling in the country remained loyal 

 to the British rule. A formal declaration that 

 "Egypt is placed under the protection of his 

 Britannic Majesty" and that "the suzerainty 

 of Turkey is thus terminated" was issued on 

 December 17, 1914, and on the following day 

 Abbas Hilmi was deposed, his uncle, Hussein 

 Kamil, succeeding him with the title of sultan 

 of Egypt. The Germanic powers, Germany 

 and Austria-Hungary, with the help of their 

 ally, Turkey, attacked Suez in 1915, with the 

 hope of destroying the canal and invading 

 Egypt, thus lessening Britain's power. Each 

 of several successive attempts failed. J.R. 



Consult Low's Egypt in Transition; White's 

 The Expansion of Egypt; Todd and Du Cane's 

 The Banks of the Nile. 



Related Subjects. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Egypt will find much that is helpful in 

 the following articles in these volumes : 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Khartum 



Memphis 



Port Said 



Slut 



Suez 



Thebes 



Aboukir 



Abydos 



Alexandria 



Assuan 



Cairo 



Fashoda 



Heliopolis 



HISTORY 



Cleopatra Mamelukes 



Gordon, Charles George Pharaoh 

 Hyksos Pharos 



Khedive Pyramids 



Kitchener, Horatio 



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