Flooding In Ancient Egypt

As human beings we started out as hunter gatherers. Humans gradually started to figure out that life would be a lot easier if they started doing things such as farming, planting crops, forming systems for hunting and more. As they realized their ideas were smart, they started making groups or ‘colonies’ of people. They went from very small groups, to large ones with hundreds of people. Having so many people living so close together in small places like like this caused chaos and disorder throughout the groups. Ancient civilizations maintained order through law codes, free will, and religion.

In Ancient Egypt they call their land The Red Land. They called it the Red Land because desert seemed to have a red hue as in color. As the land around the Nile turned black when the Nile flooded. The Nile formed as the ancient sea shifted creating the Mediterranean Sea basin. The Upper Nile is divided into three tributaries: the White Nile, the Blue Nile and the Atbara River. The White Nile currently flows through Lake Victoria, Lake Edward, and Lake George. The Blue Nile originates in the Ethiopian Mountains. As the Atbara River flows from the Ethiopian highlands and meets the combined rivers White Nile and Blue Nile. Northern Egypt was bounded by two different deserts, Arabian Desert and Libyan Desert. The importance of the Nile flooding

The Nile River shaped the civilization of Ancient Egypt in many different and important ways, which includes agriculturally, geographically, and economically. It allowed them to grow crops in the harsh Sahara Desert. The Nile River determined where the Egyptians made their cities and settlements. It also allowed them to form a civilization with a booming economy when there was still wooly mammoths roaming the Earth. The Nile River was an essential in order for both ancient and modern Egypt to form in the ways that they did.

I chose the Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley. These two civilizations are two of the most favorable ancient civilizations. Although these civilizations are similar in many ways, the small, but impacting differences it what makes these two civilizations stand out the most. The Nile River Valley was located in northern Africa in a country called Egypt. Mesopotamia was located in modern day Iraq, Iran, Syria, Kuwait, and parts of Turkey. The origin of Mesopotamia comes from the meaning “between two rivers.” The land is between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Defining moments for human civilization began within these two.

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.

All through history, geographic features have impacted the improvement of civilizations and districts. These features have both advanced and constrained interactions with other civilizations and regions. Today, I will inform you about two main geographic features that have substantially influenced the development of ancient Egypt and have promoted or limited the interaction of this civilization with another civilization or region. These geographic features are the Nile river and the Mediterranean sea. Throughout this essay, you will also learn about how the ancient Egyptian civilization compares to modern Egypt.

The Nile River is the longest fiercest river in the world. Its vast waters are full of hungry crocodiles and hippopotamus ready to feast, as well as scary waterfalls ahead. However, the Nile helped the ancient Egyptians tremendously, by supplying fertile land, food, rich soil good for growing crops, water, and transportation. Ssince the Niles soil is rich and good for growing crops, "Ancient Greeks said that Egypt was the gift of the Nile. "

Ancient Egypt would not have been able to survive without the Nile River. The Nile was the lifeline of ancient Egypt and without it, there wouldn't have been any possible way to build a successful civilization. The Nile gave ancient Egyptians materials, food, and a form of transportation. Without the Nile, the ancient Egyptians could not have been able to farm because there would be almost no fertile soil.

The Nile River is divided into two major tributaries the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The Blue Nile rises from Lake Tana and flows through Sudan. The White Nile rises from lakes in the central part of Africa and flows into Sudan. The two rivers meet in Khartoum, Sudan where they flow northward that empties into the Mediterranean. The Nile River had a huge impact on the Egyptians, without the Nile the Egyptians would have never existed.

Ancient Egyptians started to settle around the coast of the Nile river back in 3000 B.C. The Nile river is a river that lasted for hundreds of thousands of years that you can still see to this day. It’s located in the north-eastern part of Africa, which technically runs down Egypt into the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile River has improved the lives of many in Ancient Egyptian times. This includes the help of transportation from one place to another to trade and transport, fertile soil to farm and grow crops for food and trading, also, the river provides animals for eating that come downstream, this includes fish, sea creatures, birds, and big creatures like hippos! Now we’ll be talking about more in-depth how the Nile River affected

The drought of 4200 BC and the demise of the old kingdom happened in Ancient Egypt. The drought occurred during four different periods between 3,000 and 6,000 years ago causing many lives to be lost. This is the map of Ancient Egypt.( See Appendix A map) Ancient Egypt had a lot of cool like a drought, and how it happens, how it impacted this part of Ancient World then and now.

Portrayed by ancient writings we now know that Egypt was experiencing many low Nile floods toward the end of the Old Kingdom. Why was it that these Nile failures were happening? Scientists are gathering evidence that support the idea that drought conditions helped cause the collapse of a number of ancient civilizations from the eastern Mediterranean to India around 2200 B.C. This date coincides with the last years of the long reign of Pepy II. Soil borings from Ethiopia’s Lake Tana, the source of a major river that flows into the Nile, shows the lake was very shallow around 2200 B.C. Downstream at the same time, borings from the lake at the Faiyum Oasis indicate it dried up entirely. Scientists think that a shift in the circulation of the atmosphere

From the beginning of the Bronze Age, due to the floods a change happened that caused many people lifestyles. It forced inhabitants; families were divided into villages, small cities. They became home owners and land owners. They became farmers even traders, trading between different cities. Export and import started along the rivers. People made their living from this change (Mattews, Noble, & Platt, 2014).

In fact major floods that used to happen only once in 100 years now occurring every 10 or 20 years (WWF Global, N.D) And droughts are becoming a constant recurrence in countries such a Malawi, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. Ice loss from the massive ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating and could soon become the main contributor to rising ocean levels

The government should also make some water vending machines at least in the urban areas of Egypt so that fresh bottled water can easily be obtained upon inserting coins in the said machine. This would be a bit expensive and can thus be made only in the urban centers where the people are likely to afford using such services as a safe way of accessing clean water for consumption. Upon evaluating the above given options to solving the water problem, the government of Egypt will be faced