The Nile is famous for being the longest river in the world. The river got its name from the Greek. The Neilos, which means Valley Egypt today, is still dependent on the Nile River. While the Nile River is associated with Egyptians, it actually touches parts of Ethiopia, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan.
Still dependent on its clockwork floods every year to keep not only them alive but the crops, animals and local wild life alive as well. The Nile gave the Egyptians ways to gain water, food and a way of transportation. The Nile was the fastest way to travel through Ancient Egypt. It was very easy. The currents flowed north so they would let them carry them to their north destination. When they wanted to return south, the winds would carry them southwards. But when the wind was not blowing they would use paddles or long poles to move them forward.
The ancient Egyptians used to think that the Nile was some sort of god. Ancient Egyptians developed complex irrigation methods to increase the effect of the Niles waters. When the river overflows in the middle of summer, they diverted the water through canals and damns. As the water flooded into farming land, rich deposits of silt ensure a successful harvest. Egyptians base most of their lives around the Nile and depend on it for survival. The land is more than 90% desert, so the weather is hot, dry, and humid.
3100BC- The Egyptians settled around the Nile. The Majority of civilizations that form around the globe form around things that boost their chances of survival of they're people. Just like the Egyptians formed around the Nile. Egypt has often been referred to as “the gift of the Nile” Because the river fills the needs for basic civilization.
Water is considered necessary for life, as living creatures can't survive for a long period without it. Egyptians, as religious people, drive lots of their culture features from their beliefs. Throughout mans history, the basic requirement of water has led developing communities to rivers. The rivers provide moisture required to produce crops and support both animal and plant life on with that then feeds man. Rivers provide the means to transport grains, minerals, materials, products from one region to another.
The Nile River was and still is very important to the Ancient Egyptian because it kept them alive, gave them water to drink and helped develop their knowledge. The Egyptians depended on the Nile River for food, water, transportation, and allot more. The Egyptians even thought it was some kind of god. The river is useful because it floods once every year creating well fertile soil for growing their crops.
The Nile was the fastest way to travel through Ancient Egypt. Travelling on the Nile River was an easy task for the Egyptians. The currents flowed north. Boats could let the currents carry them to their north destination. When the boat wanted to return south, the winds carried them southward. When the winds were not blowing the Egyptians used paddles or long poles to move them forward.
The first few successful attempts to do irrigation were in Egypt, where the remains still exist. The building process involved many slaves digging trenches from the Nile River to their civilisations. Even though it was hardly ever short of water the quality was often poor for that was where the Egyptians put their waste. The land was covered with basins of water. But the problem with theses were that when the Nile was flowing high villages were flooded and people killed but when it was flowing low crops could not grow and they did not receive any water so it was a good thing and a bad thing. Allot of the fields were too high to receive any water so they used a bucket on a long cord that hung from the long end of a pivoted boom, counterweighted. These were called a swape or a shaduf.
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