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EGYPT, ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CIVILIZATIONS Its society was based on the Nile River. Egypt was divided into 2 areas upper and Lower Egypt. The climate was good for agriculture, but with little or no rainfall, farmers had to depend on the river for irrigation. The Nile floods regularly and at the right time of year, leaving a rich and easily worked deposit of silt. Agriculture depended on floods, the floods were regular, and this inspired the Egyptians to view the universe as a regular and orderly place. Egypt's other natural resources included reeds (such as papyrus for writing), wild animals, birds and fish, plentiful building stone and clay, and access to copper and turquoise from the desert and gold from Nubia Egypt's political organization evolved from a pattern of small states ruled by local kings to the emergence of a large, unified Egyptian state around 3100 B.C.E. Egyptian history is...

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