--- title: Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Egypt is mostly desert, yet one of the greatest civilisations grew there, all thanks to one river, the Nile. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs # Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs Lesson 5 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/0/) — Egypt is mostly desert, yet one of the greatest civilisations grew there, all thanks to one river, the Nile. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/1/) — Every summer it flooded and left rich black mud along its banks, perfect for crops. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/2/) — Imagine a long green ribbon of fields on a huge sandy map: that ribbon is where nearly all Egyptians lived. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/3/) — That is why Egypt was called the gift of the Nile. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/4/) — About 5,100 years ago the southern and northern lands were joined into one kingdom, ruled by a king called the pharaoh, whom Egyptians believed was partly a god. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/5/) — Pharaohs ruled for about 3,000 years: Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as king, Tutankhamun, a boy king, Ramesses the Great, and at the very end Cleopatra. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/6/) — Meanwhile most people farmed, ate bread and onions, and played board games like senet. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/7/) — Egypt is mostly desert, but the Nile flooded every summer and left rich black mud along its banks, perfect for crops. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/8/) — Egyptians had three seasons: the flood, the growing time and the harvest. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/9/) — About 5,100 years ago a king remembered as Narmer or Menes joined Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north into one kingdom. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/10/) — The pharaoh was the king of Egypt, and Egyptians believed he was partly a god who kept order in the world. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/11/) — Hatshepsut was a woman who ruled as pharaoh about 3,500 years ago; she sometimes wore a king's false beard and sent a famous trading trip to the land of Punt. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/12/) — Tutankhamun became pharaoh as a boy of about nine and died at about nineteen; he was not very important in his own time but is famous because his tomb was found almost untouched in 1922. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/13/) — The curse of Tutankhamun is a newspaper legend; most people who opened the tomb lived long lives. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/14/) — Ramesses II ruled for 66 years, built huge temples such as Abu Simbel and had more than a hundred children. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/15/) — Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh, lived about 2,050 years ago, spoke many languages and tried to keep Egypt free by allying with Roman leaders. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/16/) — Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to the building of the Great Pyramid. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/17/) — Most Egyptians were farmers who ate bread, onions and fish and drank thick beer, and children played with balls, dolls and board games like senet. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/18/) — Egyptians worshipped many gods, often shown with animal heads, such as Anubis with a jackal's head and Horus with a falcon's head. - ← previous: [Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/) - next →: [Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)