Examination of the Nile River

The Nile was the source of everything in Ancient Egypt. Early people built their lives around a river, eventually developing into Ancient Egypt. The Nile did not shape Ancient Egypt literally, but culturally. The Nile grew Egypt’s crops, created its traditions, making jobs, giving life to and protecting all.

The Nile influenced Ancient Egypt in many ways. The first way is the flooding cycle. In paragraph six in,”How did the Nile shape Ancient Egypt it says”,”The flooding cycle determined the planting season for farmers. When it was planting season they grew flax for producing fine linen. They also harvested papyrus.

I believe ancient Egypt was “the gift of the Nile River” because of its location in the Sahara desert, and because of its dry location. The river provided water and soil which irrigated the Nile Delta. All farmers knew when it would flood, and prepare their fields. Ancient Egypt had very little contact with surrounding civilization for many centuries because of isolation. This kept foreign ideas and influences from disrupting their cultural balance and they were free of foreign invasion through most of their history.

One way that the Nile shaped Ancient Egypt’s diverse culture and various philosophies, way by its traveling capabilities (document c). By way of the Nile, people could move many different resources

When Herodotus stated that, “Egypt was the gift of the Nile” he was referring to the natural boundaries of the basin, the barriers of the Mediterranean Sea and the cataracts along the river, which bound and united Egypt together. (Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, pg 64) I agree with Herodotus statement, but I think Egypt owes much more to the Nile than it just being a natural boundary to unifying their culture. It’s also true that these barriers along with the vast desert provided the Egyptians with a sense of protection from invasion. Also, without the Nile waters Egypt wouldn’t have been the wealthy agricultural society that they became. Annual flooding of the Nile brought rich alluvial soils to the basin from African highlands, these soils

The Nile River was the life force of ancient Egypt. People from all over the region immigrated to the area for its irrigation waters and rich silt deposits. The geography of the region played a huge role in the way the inhabitants and civilization in general was formed. The main core of Egypt covered 386, 560 square miles, of which only 11, 720 were cultivable (Tignor et al., Worlds Together, 62). The Nile differed itself specifically from the Tigris and Euphrates in that its waters did not irrigate or fertilize nearly as well but it did create green belts along the water. This created a society that flourished along the river. The Nile unlike Mesopotamia did not have a bountiful borderland but did have a desert rich in materials. The Niles predictability as the source of life and abundance shaped the character of the people and their culture. (Tignor et al., Worlds Together, 63). The Nile was peaceful and calm unlike the vicious Tigris And Euphrates Rivers. Egypt with its natural borders, which included the Mediterranean Sea, Deserts, and Large Waterfalls, was very isolated. This helped to achieve

The Nile was a great river that provided good resources enabling the people of Egypt to survive without

Just as the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shaped the worldview of early Mesopotamians, The Nile shaped the world view of the Egyptians. The Nile River was easily navigated and fairly temperate, which made for one of the greatest agricultural regions in the world at that time. Like clockwork, each year the Nile River would flood the land, leaving behind nutrient-rich silt that provided a bountiful harvest the following season. Due to the agricultural success of the land that followed the Nile the majority of Egyptians would settle close to it shores. The Nile Rivers benevolent waters also allowed the Egyptians to transport its most valuable resources to the southern regions of Africa, especially the divine metal that had been endowed by the gods to Egypt's elite. Even today the Egyptians are considered to be the pioneers of water management.

Another way the Nile helped shape ancient Egypt was in document B,agriculture. The nile provided them with

Egypt was seen as one of the most important river valley civilizations. Many historians argue that the Nile was the main source that helped Egypt be as successful as it was, because of it’s source of life. The Nile was shaped the entire Ancient Egyptian society from the beginning because of it’s usefulness to the Egyptians. The Nile River helped shape Ancient Egypt because it provided protection from invaders, jobs, trade, food supply, and had god like features.

The first way the Nile helped shape Ancient Egypt was that it provided them with a food supply. Evidence of this is Doc. B which states that the Nile River flood cycles were “Akhet [flood season]”,” Peret [planting season]”, and “Shemu [harvest season]”and that these seasons provided a new batch of silt each year which created

Did you know that the name Nile comes from the Greek name “neilios, which means valley, Not only that but also it provided many resources to the Egyptians, As a result of the Nile river it gave them a fertile farmland, food, crops, and water, they are transportation, the calendar, and irrigation and last but not least without the Nile River giving it restocks it wouldn’t be the best it can be. An important part of Egypt was its irrigation, In the document, b says that Egypt is very low on rain, so the Egyptians always relied on the Nile River the reason why is because to have fertile land, and for them to also drink. in document b, it also says that the rain was not enough to even was not enough to water the crops even in the Nile Delta

The civilization of Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest in history one of the things that most help the Ancient egyptians was the Nile river.The Nile river is located in egypt and was a huge benefit to the Ancient Egyptians (Transportation,Water,Food),. Today i am going to explain why that is.

Egypt is the most iconic of the river valley civilizations and it is also one of the most significant civilizations of all. The trade mark of Egypt is the Nile River. It was the most Important part of the geography. The predictable and cyclical flooding of the Nile was what helped agriculture thrive in Egypt. Agriculture emerged in Egypt by 5,000 BCE. The flooding of the river acted as a perfect irrigation system for plants and silt that cam from the river was nutrient rich and helped grow plants at a great scale. Egyptian agriculture was so successful that there was a great surplus of food.

One of the key areas that the Nile River helped develop in ancient Egypt was agriculture. The Nile River allowed for the Ancient Egyptians the ability to grow their own crops. The predictable annual flooding allowed for ancient Egypt to farm. In the article Sustainable Agriculture in Ancient Egypt, the author J. Donald Hughes states that “The sustainability of Egyptian agriculture was