England-Egypt

= Corey Wickham = =

= Great Britain ruled Eygpt for 24 years from 1883-1907. Egypt is officialy known as the Arab republic of Egypt and is located in northeast Africa and southwest Asia. Cairo, the capital and largest city in Egypt, is the most modern in the middle east and Africa. On the north of Egypt is the mediterranean sea, and on the east is the dead sea. When England came in, in 1883 they tried to convert them to christianity and wanted to change the way they live. When they left in 1907 Egypt went to its original religion muslim and started speaking arabic again. = = [|Egypt's geography] = = The Egyptians thought that the land was being seperated into two parts, the black land and the red land. The black lands were next to the nile or dead sea's bank and it was used for water, growing crops, and fishing. The red lands are the desert part of Egypt which provide them with a wall of sercurity agains invading armies and gives them precious metals. Egypt traded with southern Africa, Europe, and parts of Saudi Arabia. Egypt traded good's, wood, metals, stones, jewels, incense, produce, animals, animal products, artifacts, and even slaves. = = [|Trade and other info] = = The pyramids of Egypt are the last remaining ancient wonder of the world. They have been given an ‘honorary status’ in the list of the new ‘Wonders of the World’. In ancient Egypt, women could participate in business ventures, own land, represent themselves in court and even become doctors. A large number of household objects were invented or used by the ancient Egyptians, including lock and keys, combs, scissors, wigs, makeup, deodorants, toothbrush and toothpaste. [|Interesting facts] =