NMC103H1 Lecture 1: Week 1
18 May 2016
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Egypt on boundary between cooler, temperate (mediterranean) and hotter tropical belts. > extreme heat, aridity, and wind -> almost rainless climate. Kemet black land irrigated and sown and cultivated land = egypt. Deshret the red land desert chaotic lands. The two lands (tawy) lower egypt has the delta. White nile flows through lake victoria in uganda. Resulting flood first seen in aswan end of june. Annual regular flood deposits think layer of rich silt. A good inundation c. 76 m above low water level. Irrigation and control of waters was always a necessity. Euphrates+ inverted water that goes down (north) and up (south) Nile: providing cyclical time/fertility of the land/ highway primary transit connector. Contrasts in egyptian landscape: fertile land/desert (red and black sand)/ 3 main deltas: rosetta (water of re), damietta (water of ptah), pelusiac (water of amun) Myth: in the beginning the world was all water. Alexandria a lot has to be found in the mediterranean coast.
