why is Egypt called the"GIFT OF NILE "?
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The geography of ancient Egypt was dominated, as is today, by the combination of lack of rainfall and the Nile River. The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the "gift of the Nile", since the kingdom owed its survival to the annual flooding of the Nile and the resulting depositing of fertile silt. The Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea, and there is a delta at the mouth.
Other than the Nile Valley, a huge part of Egypt’s territory is a desert with some oases; therefore, the country depends on the Nile for its water supply. Herodotus, a Greek historian, nicknamed the region "the Gift of River Nile" because Ancient Egypt owed its survival to the Nile. The Kingdom depended on the annual flooding of the river which deposited silt in the region. The sediment provided the Egyptians with about three crops annually. River Nile is the main reason why civilization began in Ancient Egypt. Protected from foreign invasion by the surrounding desert and sustained by the Nile, Egypt grew from a simple agricultural region to a refined society.
Other than being the principal source of water for Egypt, it functioned as a gateway to other parts of the world. The Ancient Egyptians saw flooding as the yearly coming of their god. The earliest Egyptians labored in the places that were flooded, and they developed basin irrigation about 7,000 years ago. The Egyptians flooded the basins and closed them for forty-five days for the soil to be saturated for silt to be deposited. It was then discharged to other parts of the field and then back to the Nile. Isma’il Pasha constructed the Ibrahimiya Canal in 1873 to extend perennial irrigation.
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