Question

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a. One of an earliest civilizations

b. was a one that came up around Nile River in Africa.

c. The land around a Nile was very fertile.

d. Farmers could grow excellent crops on any land.

e. The soil was enriched with silt which was good for a crops.

f. The first settlers called much area Kemet, which means black lands.

g. They gave the land some name because

h. of a dark-coloured, silt-enriched soil.
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Answer 1

Answer:

(a)

• Although the people who settled in Mesopotamia are often credited as the first civilization, new research shows that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth. The Aborigines can trace their ancestries back to about 75,000 years ago, but became a distinct genetic group around 50,000 years ago.

(b)

• The basin is bordered on the north by the Mediterranean; on the east by the Red Sea Hills and the Ethiopian Plateau; on the south by the East African Highlands, which include Lake Victoria, a Nile source; and on the west by the less well-defined watershed between the Nile, Chad, and Congo basins, extending northwest to

(c)

• The most important thing the Nile provided to the Ancient Egyptians was fertile land. Most of Egypt is desert, but along the Nile River the soil is rich and good for growing crops. The three most important crops were wheat, flax, and papyrus. ... Papyrus - Papyrus was a plant that grew along the shores of the Nile.

(d)

• Land able to be used for farming is called "cultivable land". Farmland, meanwhile, is used variously in reference to all agricultural land, to all cultivable land, or just to the newly restricted sense of "arable land".

(e)

• Most vegetable and fruit crops thrive in silty soils which have adequate adequate drainage.

(f)

• To the ancient Egyptians themselves, their country was simply known as Kemet, which means 'Black Land', so named for the rich, dark soil along the Nile River where the first settlements began.

(g)

• According to Quartz, most countries in the world have been named after one of four things: an important person with some influence of the country or its history, a directional description of the country, a tribe or ethnic group, or a feature of its land. ... Colombia, named after Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.

(h)

• Silt soils are beige to black. Silt particles are smaller than sand particles and bigger than clay particles.