How Did Nile Shape Ancient Egypt

How Did The Nile Shape Ancient Egypt What are the most important things in your house? To the Ancient Egyptians it was the nile river. The ancient egypt was one of the four “River Civilizations”. They were called that because if they didn’t have the river they would never have survived this long. The nile started in lake Tana in the highlands of Ethiopia, and Lake victoria in Kenya. The Ancient Egyptians used the nile for everything, like farming, water and for the Egyptians, the nile was literally the difference between life and death. The nile was the main source of everything for the people in egypt, they used it to irrigate their field, and it even affected the seasons and when planting, harvesting and growing time was for them, and they paid their taxes in the crops that they grew. They dug trenches from the nile and the delta to their farms and grew the crops around them. The three seasons that hey had were determined by the flood cycle, The first season was called Akhet (the flood season) it lasted from mid-June to mid-October. The fields in the nile floodplain covered in water and got fertilized by the new batch of silt. It was during this time that many farmers did jobs like canal repairs, or quarrying to pay off their public labor taxes. Then came Peret (planting and growing season) …show more content…
It affected the food, water, culture, where they built their cities and homes, and played a massively huge part in their transportation. The nile even marked their seasons! Think of if your car, water, food, religioun, home and many other things suddenly vanished. What do you think would happen? You would die, that’s how it would be for the Ancient Egyptians if the nile dried up. They would have to leave and find a new place to live in. That would be very hard for you and your family. Think of all of America trying to do that. The nile was very important to the Egyptians. Without it egypt would not exist