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    matter of how Egypt has remained infrequently accessible to assault, alongside their general steadiness as a general public. Since Egypt gets little precipitation, Egyptians depended on the Nile River for water, while, they utilized its water for angling, cultivating, cooking, and cleaning. The Nile River streams north from the core of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, around 4,000 miles, while two waterways meet to shape the Nile. They are the Blue Nile in eastern Africa and the White Nile in focal

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    failure and the limits of human control over the river. The beginning of the flood, from the initial crevasse, poured out “468,000 second-feet onto the Delta that triple the volume of a flooding Colorado, more than double a flooding Niagara Falls and the entire upper Mississippi ever carried” (pg 203). The flood of 1927 “shifted perceptions of the role and responsibility of the federal government… shattered the myth of a quasi-feudal bond between Delta blacks and the southern aristocracy...accelerated

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    retarted but I have to pass this class. Anyways some things I thought were interesting and kind of cool are that the Mississippi river created most of the Louisiana I didn’t know that a river could do that ya that is like so exciting however it couldn’t have made it if it stayed in one channel. Southern Louisiana exists in its present form because the Mississippi River has jumped here and there within an arc about two hundred miles wide, like a pianist playing with one hand—frequently and radically

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    and beliefs. Even though they were two of the first civilizations, they developed different beliefs about their religion. The rivers and land were in both Sumer and Mesopotamia, a big part of the development of their views on religion. Mesopotamia was known as the land between two rivers because they were surrounded by the Euphrates and Tigris River. Annually the rivers would flood fertilizing Sumer’s land. Sumerians took advantage of the floods to help fertilize their land but also knew that when

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    2001 hours central time, the vessel M/V Delta Mariner collided with the Eggner’s Ferry Bridge near Aurora, Kentucky. She was a roll on/ roll off vessel which at the time of the accident, was carrying NASA booster cores for the Atlas V rocket. The Delta Mariner was 286.8 ft. long and measured 82 ft. across. At her tallest point at the moment of impact, she measured to be 53.43 ft. With the height of span B, the main navigation span, being 57 feet high, the Delta Mariner would have had 3.57 feet of clearance

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    Oasis In Ancient Egypt

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    Egypt would come to mind. ("ancient Egypt - The Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods ...") In ancient times, Egypt was the oasis of Africa, occupying about the same amount of land in the same area as modern day Egypt (northeast Africa) with the Nile river providing fertile soil for crops, making it an agricultural capital. All this agriculture also brought great wealth to

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    METHOD Study data This study is a secondary analysis of individually recoded data from the 2013-2014 Viet Nam MICS 5 (22). This household survey was carried out as part of the global MICS program that was developed and designed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to collect internationally comparable data on a wide range of indicators tracking maternal and child health. A stratified two-stage cluster sampling design was used to obtain a nationally representative sample of 10,200 households

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    Dbq Ancient Egypt

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    Nile shaped Ancient Egypt was through population distribution. According to document A, the map of Ancient Egypt, a lot of people lived among the Nile. But a majority lived by the delta. Living among the Nile and by the delta gave people fresh drinking water, good farmland, and ways of trading and transportation. The Red Land was land desert area that protected the people from invaders. No one lived there. The Nile not only shaped Ancient Egypt by population distribution but also Economics. Secondly

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    area.(Vietnam) Vietnam is an “S” shaped country stretching over 1,000 miles. It is divided into four geographic regions the highlands and the Red River Delta in the north, the Truong Son Mountains form the Central Highlands running almost the full length of Vietnam along its borders with Laos and Cambodia, the coastal lowlands, and the Mekong River Delta in the south.(Vietnam) The geographical aspects of Vietnam allowed for physical and mental exhaustion, fear of location, and fear of safety in

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    impacted a civilizations development in great measures. Depending on the resources available or the detriments present due to certain topographical characteristics like rivers or deserts, a civilization could flourish or collapse. By studying the geographic features of growing societies like the Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris Rivers as well as the Mediterranean Sea of Egypt and Mesopotamia, the link between developing cultures and geography will be examined through sources, including Egypt: Ancient

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