Ancient Egyptians
Subject:
Egyptian Notes
AP World History
“The Gift of the Nile:” This phrase first coined by the Greek historian Herodotus is
quite fitting as no other society on the earth in human history has been as dependent
on one geographical feature as the Egyptians were the Nile. In fact history has
shown us (see link) that Egyptian history is dependent on the flooding cycle of the
Nile. Seasons of high flooding in which the Nile overflows her banks and leaves a
hyper‐fertile layer of silt over the otherwise barren landscape provides Egypt with
her periods of high development and sees her flourish as a civilization. Those
periods where the Nile either doesn’t flood or engages in flooding that is excessive
