Ancient Egypt Research Paper

The civilization of Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest in world history. It is usually held to have begun around 3000 BC, when the lower Nile Valley became unified under a single ruler. By this date the only other people in the world to have a literate, urban civilization were the Sumerians, in Mesopotamia. Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. The civilization of Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest in world history. It is usually held to have begun around 3000 BC, when the lower Nile Valley became unified under a single ruler. The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as …show more content…
The Kushites lived to the south.The Nile River valley was bordered by the Libyan Desert to the west and the Nubian Desert to the east. None of the achievements of the remarkable ancient Egyptian civilization would have been possible without the Nile River. There is always a connection between landscape and how a people develop. It does not take the wisdom of a sphinx to understand why. Archaeologists and historians don't know exactly how Egyptian civilization evolved. The ancient Egyptian writing system, hieroglyphics, was advanced by 3100 B.C.E. The complex system included numbers and an alphabet as well as other symbols. Archaeologists and historians don't know exactly how Egyptian civilization evolved. 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 …show more content…
Other deserts lie to the Nile's east. Egypt's location within the world's driest region helped protect it from invaders throughout the centuries. Even today, the world around the Nile is quite barren. To the Nile's west exists the giant Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world. Outside of the narrow swath of greenery next to the river, there is sand as far as the eye can see. From north to south, the Sahara is between 800 and 1,200 miles wide; it stretches over 3,000 miles from east to west. The total area of the Sahara is more than 3,500,000 square miles. It's the world's biggest sandbox. And, as if there weren't enough sand in the Sahara, east of the Nile are other desserts. Although sand had limited uses, these deserts presented one tremendous strategic advantage: few invaders could ever cross the sands to attack Egypt — the deserts proved too great a natural