The Influence Of The Nile River In Ancient Egypt

How did the Nile shape Egypt? Did you know the Nile is the longest river in the world? The Nile helped Egypt by providing transportation, protection, and the flooding cycle. The Nile was essential for Egyptian survival. If the Nile didn’t exist Egyptians wouldn’t either.

“Egypt…is, so to speak, the gift of the Nile.” (Doc. E). The Nile River was a river that flowed for approximately 680 miles through ancient Egypt, and through other African countries. It was a crucial water source for ancient Egypt, and it was essential for the survival of the Egyptian people. Ancient Egypt was one of the dominating river valley civilizations in the ancient world, and it was located in northern Africa. It had deserts, bodies of water, mountains, and flat plains. In this context, shaping means developing and impacting. The Nile River shaped ancient Egypt in many ways. The geographical aspect and the resources the Nile provided; the transportation, and therefore trade; and the spiritual impact on the Egyptians that the Nile had all played roles in the shaping of ancient Egypt.

As Egypt thrives and becomes stronger everyday as a whole, it gets help from one special and important geological feature, the Nile. How did the Nile shape Ancient Egypt? Ancient Egypt was a civilization in Northeastern Africa that settled along the longest river in the world, the Nile. Ancient Egyptians civilized along the Nile helping them advance their city. The Nile allowed the ancient Egyptians to have fertile soil for agriculture, and trade from the help of transportation.

Next, Document D, a painting from the tomb of an Ancient Egyptian tradesman named Sennedjem, is an accurate representation of the cultural values of the time. The afterlife was a paradise called the Field of Reeds, filled with peace and prosperity. The sun god, Ra, is depicted traveling in a boat, which further illustrates the influence of the Nile on Egyptian culture. The song “Hymn to the Nile” in Document E was written during the time of Ancient Egypt by someone who dearly loved the river, so the greatness of the Nile could possibly be exaggerated by the writer. The Nile is described as the life-force of Egypt, one that determines whether the people will suffer or

The Nile River was a great gift to Egypt. It is the biggest part of ancient Egypt and modern Egypt.

Many religious figures in Ancient Egypt explain events in nature. The Nile is no different. Hapi, son of Horus, was the god of the annual flooding of the Nile. Ancient Egyptians would celebrate Hapi for good harvests. The many drawings and sketches the Ancient Egyptians did help people understand today what they believed, and gave an insight as to how people lived back then. Many drawings included people farming and herding animals. These types of pictures seem very natural, and the Nile River is depicted in many of them. Many drawings also depicted the many Gods of Ancient Egypt. This was all thanks to the Nile River, which allowed people to create drawings and teach people today about life and religion during one of the first Ancient

Evidence of this is in documents both D and E. If you look at document E, a hymn or spiritual song about the Nile states that people hailed to the Nile. In the analysis of the document E Greek Historian, Herodotus wrote that, “Egypt…is, so to speak, the gift of the Nile.” In document D the Nile influenced some tomb paintings. For example on page 65, the Nile borders the tomb painting and the plants wouldn’t be there without the Nile. Without the Nile, none of this would have been possible. This is because the sun god, Ra, provided fields and crops which could only be watered by the Nile, they hail to. The Nile was the support and backbone of all parts of Egyptian life. An additional way the Nile shaped ancient Egypt was population and settlement. Evidence of this can be found in document A. If you look at the picture in document A, people wanted to live near the Nile for a water source. When more and more people came and settled, the people near the Nile became civilized with a growing population. The people could have lived sporadically throughout Egypt. The reason that the Nile was so important to Egypt in this area was because it allowed people to be able to trade and have a drinking source. It let civilizations form and settle. If the Nile wasn’t there nobody would have been able to live

Egyptians began to settle along the banks of the Nile River, Starting as far north as to the city of Alexandria all the way down south to Aswan. They developed into a well-structured society as Far East to the Red Sea and west to Dakhia, Oasis among many (Figure 1.). The Nile River reached far lending a hand in creating a well-known civilization that consisted of building pyramids and producing crops for their pharaoh. Evolving from hunters and gatherers into agriculturalists throughout history, Egypt has claimed to be one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of ancient times. One could wonder if, what led to the collapse of this great society resulted from the Egyptians interaction with the environment by overusing

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.

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 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 Arab Republic of Egypt is located in the northeastern region of Africa. The climate is arid and dry and most of the country receives less than one inch of rain fall per year. The widespread lack of rainfall makes it extremely difficult to grow crops. Egypt has no forests and only 2 percent of the land is arable (land that can be farmed). The Nile was the giver of life for the ancient Egyptians. The Nile River, the longest river in the world, provided water to drink and fish like

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