The River Nile

The latest floods that caused serious damage were in 2011, in parts of Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

The last major flooding disaster was in 1993, when the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers were over their banks for several weeks, causing billions of dollars of damage. The flooding was at least equal to the Great Flood of 1927, after which major changes were made to the hydrology of the river valley.

There were also high river levels and some flooding along the lower Mississippi in the years 1937, 1945, 1950, 1973, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1997, and 2008. In 2011, both the Morganza and Bonnet Carre spillways were opened in Louisiana to reduce river levels at Baton Rouge and New Orleans respectively.

It was influenced because, old Egyptian men use to pee inside the rivers, making foreign traders wanting to pass through the river even more.

yes because they thought it was magic.

They really did not predict - they just realised that it happened at the same period each year.

They had no way or means to manage the river - all they could do was work around the flood season as regards planting crops and harvesting them. Factually it was the river that 'managed' the people, for if the flood did not happen there was famine, starvation and much death. The ancient Egyptian based their calendar upon the cycles of the Nile. It had twelve months of 30 days each and was divided into three seasons - 'Akhet' - the inundation or flood season. 'Peret' - the growing season. 'Shemu' - the drought or harvest season.

The 4200 mile long Nile River flows through much of Africa accumulating sediment as it flows through the African forests. When it overflows in Egypt, it deposits the sediment fertilizing the land for the Egyptian crops to grow. Without the Nile, this flooded area would just be part of the desert and there would be no Egyptian civilization.

a time when the river water rises high and spills over the river banks

Actually, they just did nothing! It doesn't rain in Egypt, so flooding and irrigation were the only ways to water crops in ancient times.

The Ancient Egyptians fished from papyrus boats, on the Nile. They used nets, traps,pens and harpoons. The nets,traps and pens were made from woven willow branches, later fishing with rods and fish hooks made of bone were used. They were also one of the earliest cultures to indulge in fishing as a leisure activity.

Lotus, the Cyperus papyrus / paper reed, fig, date palm, mulberry. The Nile Delta Vegetation consists of Phragmites australis, Typha capensis, and Juncus maritimus, with some small sedges. However the Nile being over 4,000 miles long, plus the fact that part of it flows through jungle this answer cannot be comprehensive. The links below will give more information.

In ancient Egypt, the geography helped the people there live. There were many river systems such as the Tigris and Eurphrates. Those two are the main rivers. People decided to settle near those river systems because it would help their farming and livestock. Because of the many rivers of Egypt and Mesopotamia, they experienced many floods. Just like in Ancient India, Egypt and Mesopotamia suffered from these floods when it would drown livestock and crops, yet the floods helped them thrive. The way it helped was by depositing silt onto the land. This silt caused fertile soil for the crops to grow on. Egypt is right next to the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea so I inferred that a good part of Egypt was sandy.

It helped because it worked as a trade route, provided H20 and food for the egyptians, it gave them soil, etc...

Civilization grew there because they had fresh supply of water which made the land arable and they were protected. In the north they had the Nile Delta. In the south they had the two cataracts which made it impossible for boats to get them. Finally to the east and west they had large deserts.

what way did the egpttions travele on the Nile river

Because of the water and the rich soil, it is easier for people that live there to grow food.

Yes, they were, due to the incredible richness of the Nile River Delta after the floods. That's how they survived; they farmed for about one season then lived off of that. However, at the end of the year, before their next farming season, they would often go into a period of famine. The Romans called Egypt the bread basket of the world. Without Egypts ability to produce surplus foods, the Roman Empire wouldn't have been able to feed its army.

Slaves ate what ordinary people had to eat. The basic diet was bread, onions, garlic and dates with ocassional meat or fish. They also drank copious amounts of beer owning to the poor quality of the water.

The early Egyptians settled in the Nile River valley because all the area around the Nile was fertile land and it flooded at the same time every year making it a food source and a calender. They also used the Nile to cook, bathe, clean, fishing, and farming.

The Nile River is the longest river in the world. It is 4184 mile( 6695 kilometers) long. It runs through Ethiopia, Zaire, Uganda,Kenya,Tanzania, Rwanda,Burundi,Sudan, and Egypt. The river got its name from the greek word nelios meaning valley. The Egyptians named the river Ar meaning black. Greeks called the river kem also meaning black.

Ancient Egypt could not have existed without the river Nile. Since rainfall is almost non-existent in Egypt, the floods provided the only source of moisture to sustain crops. Every year, heavy summer rain in the Ethiopian highlands, sent a torrent of water that overflowed the banks of the Nile.

farmers used the shaduf to irrigate their fields

:):) its true

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people make irrigation to help water the crops.

Also, if the flood wasn't in time for the seasonal flooding,

then the crops would pretty much die; making people starve.

In ancient Egypt the Nile Delta was the main farming area. The Nile flooded every spring bringing nutrient from its upper reaches, fertilising and irrigating the delta ready for the crops to be planted.