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Gifts Of The Nile Valley Summary

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Gifts of the Nile Valley

The book Gifts of the Nile Valley tells the history of, not only one of Africa's greatest and most important natural monuments, The Nile River, but also uses that history to link the earliest traces of mankind to Africa. The begging of the book explains the importance of the Nile River both for mankind and for the environment around it. The beginning chapters also explain how the Nile River actually works, which I personally found very interesting. According to the book the Nile River is the longest River in the world , stretching as long as 4,132 miles. It also functions much differently than normal rivers. Unlike other rivers, The Nile River flows south to north. Also, while normal rivers need to be fed rain and connected to other bodies of water, The Nile River runs through mostly desert and does not get any rain. The Nile is also not connected to any other body of water. As bizarre as that is, its not the most impressive thing that this legendary river can do. Throughout its entire length, The Nile river has somehow managed to fertilize the soil around it for up to ten miles. It's believed that through this river, Civilizations from thousands of years ago managed to sustain themselves. These incredible qualities of the Nile River are very impressive and may be seen as …show more content…

Being African American myself, I found it very interesting to learn more about, not only my heritage, but the heritage of possibly every man and woman on earth. Throughout reading the book There were a lot of things that interested me. The art in particular interested me the most. I found it fascinating that even the earliest of man could have such skill in any craft. I thought that in earlier times, mankind would be too busy or not have much interest in art, but they seemed to have had a major focus on it and used it to honor the people or deities they deemed

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