How Did The Nile Shaped Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt: The Nile Shaped Ancient Egypt

In Ancient Egypt river were important, wonder why? About more than 2,000 years ago in

Egypt rivers were important because the Egyptians needed things like river and irrigation

systems. Those were important needs that the Egyptians needed. The Egyptians needed those

things that needed to plant crops for food, they needed to wash up, and they needed to have

drinking water. As you can see the Egyptians needed water to survive…How Did the Nile Shape

Ancient Egypt? The Nile shaped Ancient Egypt.

The Nile shaped economy was talked about in documents B and C. The Egyptians only

have three seasons, for the most part the farmers were busiest during planting and growing

season, and also a very high

Nile would destroy the villages. ( Doc. B) Crops in

the Lower Nile harvested and sent to market.

As well as document A, in document A they talked about the Egyptian settlements in

Ancient Egypt. About 4,160 miles of the Nile is actually in Egypt. Settlement matters, the

Egyptians don’t just move anywhere they move to a good settlement where there is a

good source of water, most Egyptians like livings near the Nile River or the stream, the

reason of that is because the Nile and streams are a good source of water. They also liked

to settle near places that had irrigation systems, irrigation systems were systems that were

used for growing crops. They needed that water for other reasons as well they needed the

Nile for transportation to get from one place to another.

Last but not least the Egyptians had religious beliefs as talked about in documents D and

E. The river had a profound effect on the spiritual beliefs of the ancient Egyptians. The

Egyptians believed that the Nile would continue to provide for them in the afterlife. (Doc. D)

The Egyptian people praised the river because it makes people joyful and it allows for religious

festivals. They had a spiritual relationship with the Nile and they also worshiped the Nile.

In ancient Egypt the Egyptians had religious beliefs and the importance of their Nile

shaped economy (farming and trade) they also had the importance of where to settle. The

Egyptians needed fresh water and that depended on where they settled and the Egyptians all had

different religious beliefs.