CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -By the 1850s, seeing an opportunity for Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, which governed the country at the time, Khedive Said Pasha (who oversaw Egypt and the Sudan for the Ottomans) had granted French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps permission to create a company to construct a canal.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to Cairo, secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of Egypt to build a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez.

Detailed explanation-3: -French attempts to build a canal through Panama (province of Colombia) advanced further. Led by Ferdinand de Lesseps-the builder of the Suez Canal in Egypt-the French began excavating in 1880.

Detailed explanation-4: -Portait of Ferdinand de Lesseps. In 1879 at age 74, he became President of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique. He was considered the perfect choice to lead the enormous technical enterprise of building a canal across the Isthmus of Panama.

Detailed explanation-5: -Between 1859 and 1869, Egyptian khedive Saʿīd Pasha partnered with France’s Suez Canal Company to build the present canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas.