How are rivers in ancient Egypt affecting their people?
The major influence if the Nile on the ancient Egyptian civilisation was its unique annual inundation. Every year form July to September the Nile would flood . The sources of the Nile are in the volcanic mountains of Ethiopia and Uganda and when the snow melted on the high peaks it would add to the volume of Autumns rain water and bring to Egypt not only much needed fresh water, when the waters receded every year there would be a new deposit of a few centimetres of rich black loam, referred to kemit or kmt by the ancient Egyptians. The significance and value of this soil is reflected in the name the people along the Nile and in the delta region gave themselves and their land. For they called themselves, The People of the Black Land. The people realised this was truly a gift, for the loam was extremely rich in nutrients and mineral due to its origins and it allowed them to produced amazingly bountiful crops that required no fertilising. It took around three months for the flood waters t
