History 2173 Lecture : Egypt

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 2173
• Professor: Barbara Murison

Document Summary

In the south it is protected by the nile and at the north the mediterranean. In the east there was desert as well as to the west and this was to their advantage but it was negative also because they were isolated from new ideas. Was divided into three sections which were lower, middle, and upper egypt in the south. They did not depend on rains throughout the year but relied on the floods that happened once a year that peaked in september (silt carried by the river was spread over the land and fertilized their fields) Was easy to obtain agricultural surplus there and irrigation works were designed to extend the floods of the nile not prevent them and this was a large scale project and led to an organized way of life. Nomes (provinces) were what the villages were grouped into and eventually the whole country became unified.