The Egyptians were very lucky to have the Nile River because without it they wouldn’t be able to survive. The Nile shaped Egypt by granting them with almost everything they needed. Where the Nileś source came from may have been a riddle to them but we know that came from Lake Tana which is the branch called the Blue Nile and from Lake Victoria which is the other branch called the White Nile. Egypt has been around for five thousand years and for all of those five thousand years the Nile River helped the Egyptians survive in Egypt. The Nile River shaped Ancient Egypt by setting a calendar, providing food and water,
In Ancient Egypt the people lived differently than us. Instead of showers they used lakes or rivers. Instead of buying food at a store they have to hunt for their food. They also grow their food. The main crops they use are barley and emmer wheat. They use those items for making bread bread and beer. They even had their own language.
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.
The Nile shaped Egypt by influencing its geography, popular distribution, and settlements. The majority of settlements in Ancient Egypt were located around the Nile River Delta (Doc. A), where land was fertile, trade was good, and there were many natural resources. Because of geography in this civilization, Egyptians could easily protect and defend themselves, as well as settle down and have good lives.
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 ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt develop into successful civilizations by having floods from the nile river that provided water, food and fertile area in the middle of the desert as document 1 states. In document 2 it says that they also had rivers that provided many resources such as transportation, trade as well as plants, the rivers were surrounded by deserts.
The Nile River is arguably one of the most important water sources in the world and has an extremely rich history dating back thousands of years. Without the Nile, the ancient Egyptian civilization would have never existed. Egypt is basically a whole lot of sand and not much else, except they have the Nile River flowing through it, on it’s way to the Mediterranean sea. The ancient Egyptians lived along the Nile River and it provided them with abundant water, food (fish) and the opportunity to develop agriculture along it’s banks. The Nile River was also used for transportation and trade with other regions because land travel was more difficult than floating on the river. The Ancient Egyptians were at the mercy of the seasonal flooding and
The Nile River was a great gift to Egypt. It is the biggest part of ancient Egypt and modern Egypt.
In examining early civilizations the livelihood of each new civilization rested on the crops grown on the farms. The geographical features of a land and knowledge of farming helped determine the type of crops the citizens would grow and would determine how much food was going to be available for the members of the villages. Due to the calm , predictable nature of the Nile River (Acrobatiq, 2014) and knowledge of the science of farming it allowed for better crops and helped Egypt develop faster as a civilization than India.
In ancient Egyptian civilization the Nile River was the single most important thing to the Egyptians. If the Egyptians did not have the Nile River they would have never survived. The Egyptians thrived because of the Nile it provided them with trade, protection, farming, irrigation and transportation.
Egyptians were mainly able to survive because of the fact that the Nile River was going through the center of their kingdom. The Nile was a main source of nourishment as well as a timetable, because the Egyptians knew when it would flood and when it would recede, so they planned their growing seasons according to the flooding of the Nile River. Egyptians were not the only well known culture to develop alongside the shores of a major river a Far East culture also developed.
Stretching across ten countries and spanning over four thousand miles, the Nile River became the heart of Egyptian civilization. The lower (northern) Nile overflowed its banks several months out of the year before the creation of the Aswan High Dam in 1970. When the floodwaters receded, they left a new layer of rich silt behind, making the surrounding valley and delta a fertile and desirable habitat. As early as 8000 BCE, the people who inhabited the valley of the world’s longest river became relatively sedentary and in 5000 BCE they adopted the agricultural village life commonly associated with Neolithic culture. Throughout the Predynastic period, the North African climate was immensely dry. In order to combat this problem, many villages formed alliances that worked to control the river’s flow. Over time, these small federations of villages conquered and absorbed other weaker ones. As communities grew into chiefdoms, they began to advance rapidly toward refined civilization shortly after 3600 BCE.
The placement of most of Egypt’s cities was also key. Since most cities are at least a couple miles from the Nile river, it became a very good spot for water. All they needed to do is get a bucket of water, and then boil it to get the germs out. This influenced the creation of dams in a few hundred years too. Egypt is also on the very tip of Africa, which made it easier to trade with Europe and Asia than the rest of Africa. This was also one of the reasons that the Egyptians made boats later. As we
Egypt is the most fascinating civilizations ever studied. It teaches us of architecture and so much more. In these informative paragraphs you will learn about the old, middle and new kingdoms. Egypt was split into 2 regions called upper and lower Egypt. Upper Egypt was located on the southern half of Egypt while lower Egypt was located on the northern half of Egypt. Both of the regions relied on the source of the Nile
The Nile River gave incite to Egypt’s society, culture, economy, and its politics. The Nile was what the Egyptians civilization revolved around and would have ceased to exist without it. The Nile helped the Egyptian civilization in more ways than one.