WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Around 5000 B.C., when the climate became more arid, nomadic groups retreated to the Nile Valley, creating the first urban settlements. These communities were concentrated in the North and the South. As a result, Egypt became known as the “Double Land” or the “Two Lands” of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Nile begins near Jinja, Uganda, on the north shore of the lake, flowing northward over Ripon Falls, which has been submerged since the completion of the Owen Falls Dam (now the Nalubaale Dam) in 1954.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is believed that humans started living along the Nile’s banks starting in about 6, 000 B.C.E. For the earliest inhabitants of the Nile Valley food was not easy to find.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Middle‐Kingdom (Twelfth Dynasty, eighteenth century BCE) site of Illahun (also known as Lahun or Kahun); The New Kingdom (fifteenth–fourteenth centuries) artisan village of Deir el‐Medina on the Theban west bank; More items