Suez Canal

During the twentieth century, the MIddle East has become signigicant to the rest of the world due to its control of transportation routes like the Suez Canal. In addition, the high demand for oil has made the MIddle East a world power.

Great Britian

Locks are only needed when the ships need to be raised and lowered in altitude because of the terrain the canal crosses.

Suez Canal

It is entirely in Egypt, at the northern end of the Red Sea.


lies fully in Egypt which is further joint to the red sea

The Suez Canal was the first canal to separate two major land masses and allow boats and ships to pass inbetween. The Panama Canal was created soon after the Suez, as the Suez Canal proved that a canal could be built that would separate two continents. Without the Suez, the Panama Canal may have never been funded and made. ~Ares

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No. Most, but not all, other canals have canal locks. Most canals are not built on flat land. Another without locks is the Corinth Canal.

In early Middle Eastern civilizations probably first built canals to supply drinking and irrigation water.

Gangs of laborers (called "navvies" or "navigators") first constructed British canals to provide artificial waterways for more efficient transportation of goods and materials during the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century. Canals served to open up countries to the Industrial Revolution, just as the Internet is opening up the world to the Information Revolution.

The engineer of the Suez Canal was a Frenchman named Ferdinand De-lessemps.

Eisenhower Doctrine

Great Britain.

It helped solve transportation issues

North Eastern Egypt connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea

The Suez Canal is 193,300 metres long.

claiming the white man's burden

The Suez Canal is 100.76 miles long

The idea of connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea is as old as the pharaohs. The first canal in the region seems to have been dug about 1850BCE, but that attempt, like many others, failed. Desert winds blew in and clogged the canal. About 150 years ago, Great Britain had a thriving trade with India, but without a canal, British ships had to make a long journey around the entire continent of Africa in order to trade with India. A canal through the Isthmus of Suez would cut the journey from Great Britain to India by 6,000 miles. An isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger pieces of land.

shorten trade routes

The Sanai.

Suez Canal

Panama Canal

Danube - Black Sea Canal

The Indian ocean and the Mediterranean Sea

Sovient Union - the USSR and the Western Allies - Australia, U.S.A and Britain

U.S., Soviet Union, Korea, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Germany.

Cairo is the capital of Egypt; the Suez Canal was dug to allow ships to travel between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. It divides Africa and Asia.

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