How is Egypt the gift of the Nile?

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Muhammad Sharp

2 March, 23:03

How is Egypt the gift of the Nile?

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Jairo Francis · Answer 1

The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the "gift of the Nile", since the kingdom owed its survival to the annual flooding of the Nile and the resulting depositing of the fertile silt. The Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea, and there is a delta at the mouth.