How might the Nile cataracts have both helped and hurt Egypt?

Answer 1

It helped them because they can get water supply easily, and it could hurt them because they had big floods.
It gave them water for water supply but it hurt Egypt because it flooded the crops
Cataracts (the white water rapids of the Nile) prevented potential invasions using the River Nile--but they also kept Egyptians from getting very far. The cataracts harmed the Egyptians because it held back ships that tried to move though the River Nile.
It helped Egypt because it protected from invaders from coming in. It hurt Epgyt in the sailing portion.
The cataract made it impossible for invaders attack the Egyptians

Answer 2

It helped them because they can get water supply easily, and it could hurt them because they had big floods.
It gave them water for water supply but it hurt Egypt because it flooded the crops
Cataracts (the white water rapids of the Nile) prevented potential invasions using the River Nile--but they also kept Egyptians from getting very far. The cataracts harmed the Egyptians because it held back ships that tried to move though the River Nile.
It helped Egypt because it protected from invaders from coming in. It hurt Epgyt in the sailing portion.
The cataract made it impossible for invaders attack the Egyptians

Answer 3

It helped them because they can get water supply easily, and it could hurt them because they had big floods.
It gave them water for water supply but it hurt Egypt because it flooded the crops
Cataracts (the white water rapids of the Nile) prevented potential invasions using the River Nile--but they also kept Egyptians from getting very far. The cataracts harmed the Egyptians because it held back ships that tried to move though the River Nile.
It helped Egypt because it protected from invaders from coming in. It hurt Epgyt in the sailing portion.
The cataract made it impossible for invaders attack the Egyptians

Answer 4

The word cataract has two different meanings. A cataract as a disease is the clouding over of the eye in the crystalline lens. A cataract in a river is an area of the river where the elevation of the streambed changes too quickly or has too many boulders to permit navigation, like a waterfall. It is this second kind of cataract that applies to Egypt.

Since ancient Egypt was most effectively governed by using the Nile River as a means of transport, cataracts in the Nile River effectively served as barriers to travel and control. As a result, the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs found it nearly impossible to control the land south of the First Cataract and this ended up becoming the southern border of Ancient Egypt.

Answer 5

It made it hard because it was harder to travel on shallow parts of the river, but it also gave them the opportunity to easily cross to diferent sides of the Nile

Answer 6

It helped because it kept intruders out of Egypt and their Nile. It also hurt Egypt because it kept traders out sometimes, thinking it was a safe journey to Lower or Upper Egypt.