desert the two main deserts that make it up are the sahara and Libyan deserts. The climates of Egypt can go as low as 45°F and as high as 110°F. Egypts highest mountain is Mount Catherine and is as high as 2629m high. The longest river in the world the nile is in Egypt. The history of Egypt is most fascinating because of the time of the pharaohs. The pharaohs were responsible for many famous things like the sphinx and the pyramids. In the time of the
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How is the Nile River important? I think the Nile River is important because it has multiple uses, but the main uses I’m going to talk about is fresh water, topography, and food. Fresh water was really important because it was all over the place so people might as well use the water,for example there is water in many features like in rivers, lakes, and Inland seas which were great sources of fresh water. Water is important because people in the early Egypt bathed and washed things in the water. The
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I believe the location of the pyramids make a huge difference in how they appear. The Pyramid of the Sun’s landscape contains grass and a path to the top of the pyramid. On the other hand, the pyramids of Khufu are surrounded by sand. In my opinion, the location of the pyramids of Khufu’s appear abandoned where as, the Pyramid of the Sun looks more like a place for tourists. I am able to imagine school students visiting the pyramid of the Sun on school field trips. Also, the Pyramid of the Sun appears
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Step pyramid of Djoser was built around 2650 BC (2630-2611 BC) and is located in Saqqara, Egypt. Pyramid was constructed by architect Imhotep (king’s vizier) and its name comes after the King of Egypt’s third dynasty, Djoser (also known as Netjerykhet). At first, Imhotep planned it to be flat-roofed mastaba tomb with slopping sides in a plain rectangular form. However, the final variant presented was six-layered step pyramid of 60 meters in height and 121 x 109 meters in size. Unlike mastaba tombs
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they settled is because they have a big river, the Nile river. It provides them with food to eat, fresh water to drink, and easy transportation so they can get to the places they need to be. They have good vegetation, around the river it is Broadleaf Evergreen forest. They have tall green trees with big leaves where other places have desert and no trees. The land use surrounding the Nile is commercial farming, which can be helpful because with the Nile river they can use irrigation to help with the crops
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eight thousands B.C, desiccation swallowed large, prolific lands of Egypt, structuring the Sahara and forcing the living tribal groups to leave and seek for survival. Eventually, they settled along the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea down to the Nile River and around its banks around three thousands B.C. The stability that ancient Egyptians found after years of unsettlement provided them the ability to structure an enormous, civilized empire that extended for long periods of time. Egypt began gaining
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stretched from the Nile River’s first cataract, or waterfall, to within 100 miles of the Mediterranean Sea. About 3100 B.C., Menes, the king of Upper Egypt, united the two regions. He founded Egypt’s first capital, Memphis. The Nile River linked from south Egypt to north Egypt used as a highway to send officials or armies to towns along the river. The Nile also served as a trade route. Egyptians traveled up and down the Nile on boats. Also the Nile River is the world’s longest river, the Nile extends about
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central Nyanza district in 1930. Much of her fiction stories are based on customs, history and traditions of the Luo tribe which is the second largest ethnic group in Kenya. They lived for the most part near Lake Victoria. The Luo migrated from the Nile region of Sudan around 15 century. Originally they were pastoralists but later became fishermen and farmers. The story is set in Kenya, where the Luo tribe had settled near Lake Victoria. The village was facing a severe drought and was in desperate
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The Significance of Agriculture in Early Human Civilization Over the course of human evolution, there has been no greater single development with as profound and far reaching effects as that of the development of agriculture. Sustainable agriculture drove human civilization from a hunter-gatherer society to the settled and centralized society we know today. The advent of modern agriculture techniques enabled early man to settle in one area and develop their own food and raw material needed for
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The Pyramids Of Giza Remember those triangle things you saw on tv once, well, those things are called pyramids, and a few of them are found in Egypt like the pyramids of Giza. It all started off i]on August 23, 2470, BC, the exact day they started building the first pyramid at Giza. Not only is there just one pyramid at Giza, but there are three pyramids all with their own special features. Also, if you remember seeing a big cat close to these pyramids, don’t worry, nothing happened to your brain
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