GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Who built a canal to link the Nile River to the Red Sea?
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Pharaohs
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Hyksos
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Babylonians
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Peasants
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It is a well-established historical fact that the first one to come up with the idea of connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, via the Nile and its branches, was the Egyptian Pharaoh Senausert III of the Twelfth Dynasty.
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.
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