INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The country Egypt is called the “Gift of the Nile” as it is Egypt’s lifeline. Without the Nile, Egypt would have been a desert. Historically, the Nile has provided water for the cultivation of crops in Egypt that led to the burgeoning of many civilizations along the river valley.

Detailed explanation-2: -Without the Nile River, all of Egypt would be desert. Only about an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain falls throughout Egypt each year. But each summer, the river rises because of rains at its source far to the south in Ethiopia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Egypt, as Herodotus wrote, is the Gift of the Nile. Without its waters, there is no country; it’s just a huge slab of desert with a few oases. To put it another way, Egypt isn’t a square, as on the map.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ‘red land’ was the barren desert that protected Egypt on two sides. These deserts separated ancient Egypt from neighbouring countries and invading armies. They also provided the ancient Egyptians with a source for precious metals and semi-precious stones.

Detailed explanation-5: -Around 25, 000 BC, the land underwent significant climatic change which transformed the grassy plains into desert. This made the land much less habitable and, as a result of this change, nomads which had inhabited the land that is now the Eastern Desert were driven towards the Nile River.