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Geography of Egypt
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Nile River
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Longest river in the world
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But
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Not the largest!
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What is the largest?
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The Amazon River
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The Nile River
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Is over 4,000 miles long!
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Wow!
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That’s like going to California and back.
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It’s the only major river in the world that flows north.
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The source
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Of the Nile River
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Is at Lake Victoria
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From there, it flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Egypt is often called
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The “Gift of the Nile”
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Why?
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B/C without the Nile
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Egypt is mainly a desert.
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The Nile provides life to a desolate area.
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Just as people in Mesopotamia
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Depended on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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To provide fertile land and food.
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The people of Egypt depended on the Nile.
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Each year the Nile would over flow its banks
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And deposit silt on the ground
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Silt is fine bits of rock and soil
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It made the land very fertile
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After the river returned to its banks
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The farmers would plow the fields
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And plant seeds in the fertile silt.
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The crops would grow quickly
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Sometimes producing two to three harvests a year.
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However!
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Sometimes the Nile took life away
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When rain fell too lightly upriver
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The Nile did not overflow
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The land lay baked by the sun and crops dried up.
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With out the harvest
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People would starve
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Sometimes, too much rain fell upriver.
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When this happened, the Nile flooded wildly
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It would wash away crops
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drown people
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And animals
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Over time, the Egyptians worked out a way
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To predict when the Nile would flood.
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They developed a calendar
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And divided it into three seasons
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Inundation
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The time when the Nile flooded its banks
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During this time
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Building projects took place
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Emergence
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The time when the Nile receded back within its banks
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This was the time when the farmers
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Would plant their crops
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Harvest
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This is the time when the crops were harvested
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After this, the cycle started again!
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Smile you’re done
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