~The Nile~

The first great African civilization developed in the northern Nile Valley was in about 5000BC. Dependent on agriculture, this state, called Egypt, relied on the flooding of the Nile for irrigation and new soils. It dominated vast areas of northeastern Africa for millennia. Ruled by Egypt for about 1800 years, the Kush region of northern Sudan subjugated Egypt in the 8th century BC. Pyramids, temples, and other monuments of these civilizations blanketed the river valley in Egypt and northern Sudan.



The Nile is the longest river in the world, located in northeastern Africa. From its principal source, Lake Victoria, in east central Africa, the Nile flows north through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea, a distance of 3470 miles. From its remotest headstream in Burundi, the river is 4145 miles long. The river basin covers an area of more than 1,293,000 sqare miles.

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