SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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The Egyptians called the soil deposited along the banks of the Nile the “ ____ “
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Gift of the Nile
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Stuff left behind
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mud
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dirt
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -But the ancient Egyptians called it Ar or Aur, meaning “black, ‘’ a reference to the rich, dark sediment that the Nile’s waters carried from the Horn of Africa northward and deposited in Egypt as the river flooded its banks each year in late summer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gifts of the Nile included water, transportation, trade, papyrus, fish and other animals, and rich black soil. It all started each year with the annual slow flooding of the Nile.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Greek historian, Herodotus gave the name to the region as “the Gift of River Nile” because of the dependence on the river for survival.
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