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Geography Helps Shape Egypt

• Without the Nile, Egypt would be just the barren desert that surrounds the river.
• In ancient times, as today, farming villages dotted the narrow band of land watered by the Nile. Farmers took advantage of the Fertile soil of the Nile Valley to grow wheat and flax, a plant whose fibers were used for clothing.
• The Nile rises in the highlands of Ethiopia and the lakes of ventral Africa. In ancient times, Egyptians eagerly awaited the annual flood. It soaked the land with life0giving water and deposited a layer of rich silt.