Ancient Egypt - Land of the River :: Ancient Egypt Egyptian History

Ancient Egypt - Land of the RiverAll of Egypt is the gift of the Nile. It was the Greek historian Herodotus who made that observation. The remarkable benefits of the Nile are clear to every one(a), but through with(predicate) fib he was the first to talk about it and consider its fascination. Through history, the Nile play a major role in the building of civilizations. The first civilizations to get along in history started on a river valley or in a place where resources are numerous and example of these are in India where Indus river is found and Tigris where Euphrates is found and many other places (cradles of civilization). The Nile is the longest river in the world, cuts a swath of green and life through the bareness of the giant Sahara abjure in northern Africa. It is almost 4160 miles long from its remotest head stream, the Lavironza river in Burundi, in central Africa to its delta on the Mediterranean sea north east of Egypt. The river flows north and drain 1100100 square miles, about tenth the size of Africa, passing through ten African countries. It has many tributaries but there are cardinal main ones the White Nile fed by lake Victoria and the Blue Nile orgasm from Ethiopian mountains. These two main branches join near Khartoum, the capital of Sudan and they concern together as Nile proper until meeting the Mediterranean Sea and forming the Nile delta in northern Egypt. Around 5000 BC, one of the first great civilizations developed in the northern Nile river valley dependent on agriculture in a land called Egypt. Water Fertile soil and rivers flow north art object prevailing wind blows south made the Nile the best transportation way, were examples of the Nile gifts. some other gift is that every year the cloudburst came bringing disaster and dearth due to destroying the crops and their villages. The first forms of government appeared in Egypt when the Egyptians organized their efforts under one leadership to avoid the disasters of the yea rly flood. On the other hand Nile fill caused some problems in landmarks. Simple geometry had to be found to keep the boarder and a simple system metric (invention of the nilometer) to study the Nile flow and flood every year. As the state grew and more complex religious and governmental systems started to emerge, the need for a system to record events and rituals was growing too.