Sudan‚ and Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea‚ with a total distance of 5584 km. From its remotest headstream in Burundi‚ the river is 6671 km long. The river basin covers an area of more than 3‚349‚000 sq km. Not only is the Nile considered a wonder by Herodotus‚ but by people all over the world‚ due to its impotance to the growth of a civilization.<br><br>The first great African civilization developed in the northern Nile Valley in about 5000 BC. Dependent on agriculture‚ this state‚ called Egypt‚ relied
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The factors that lead to the "collapse" of civilizations are almost directly related to those that created it. Archaeologists characterize collapse by a number of elements‚ some of which we have evidence for‚ others we do not. Most archaeologists are unsure of exactly what caused the decline of most civilizations in the ancient world‚ yet there are many clues to some of the events that could have contributed. The collapse of the ancient Roman Empire‚ the Mesoamerican Mayan‚ and the Egyptian cultures
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Most people do not know which ancient civilization had the greatest impact on subsequent human history. The one’s who do know‚ they either chose Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ Persia‚ India‚ China or Greece.They all had an impact but only one had the greatest impact. I believe the Persian Civilization had the greatest impact on human history because of their architecture‚ culture and they were also the first civilization empire. First‚ the Persian architecture was a lot different which influence other places
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Contribution of Babylonians in Science and Technology Babylonia was an ancient cultural region in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq)‚ withBabylon as its capital. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi (fl. ca. 1696 – 1654 BC‚ short chronology) created an empire out of the territories of the former Akkadian Empire. Babylonia adopted the written Semitic Akkadian language for official use‚ and retained the Sumerian languagefor religious use‚ which by that time was no longer a spoken language
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Egypt has had a long list of foreign rulers such as the Ottoman Empire‚ France‚ and as recent in modern history‚ the British throughout its ancient existence. Colonial rule was a part of life in Egypt for the longest while until the fight for independence spearheaded after the end of World War I. Why should a country with as rich of a history as Egypt have to answer to foreign rule from the West? The Ottoman’s rule that was in place for centuries was replaced by that of the British‚ and that is not
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The society of Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt had different expectations regarding marriages even though both the societies had portrayed marriage as a contract between a man and a woman. As Ancient Mesopotamian cultures grew in strength‚ wealth and power‚ a masculine structure had started to develop which gave men more power over women‚ to control the society and make the rules. According to the Mesopotamian society‚ ‘Under the Laws of Eshnunna’‚ marriages were legal contracts made between the families
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There are many different and major civilizations in the world today. The first four major civilizations all begin in river valleys. These civilizations were China on the Huang He River‚ Mesopotamia on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers‚ Egypt on the Nile River‚ and India on the Indus River. River valleys have always been a necessity to early growing civilizations. Amongst those four civilizations‚ In ancient China‚ there was a lot of different architecture designs based on China’s history and their
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Ancient Civilizations There are many major civilizations in the world today. The first four major civilizations all formed in river valleys. These civilizations are Egypt on the Nile River‚ China on the Huang He River‚ India on the Indus River‚ and Mesopotamia on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. River valleys were a necessity in Early civilizations. The Nile‚ a river that runs through Egypt played an important role in the creation of the civilization. The river was used for irrigation of their crops
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Chanelle Samuel The Inevitable Progression of Complex Societies Ancient civilizations and the civilizations of today all share a commonality. That commonality is that all civilizations seem to go through this pattern of rise and fall. The civilization will grow‚ prosper‚ accumulate wealth and power‚ but eventually due to a variety of factors including natural disasters‚ economic decline‚ invasion‚ and so on‚ the civilization will slowly lose power and land and relinquish any sort of ties that once
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expanding into Egypt after the deregulation of the Egyptian telecommunications market in 1998. The decision involved strategic issues and internal considerations. Vodafone put emphasis on global growth expansion into mobile markets worldwide‚ and they had a decision matrix for assessing new investments. The first investment point of emphasis was looking at the country’s political stability. Although there was some political unrest in the region‚ Vodafone’s executives decided that Egypt was a stable
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