Examples of Nile in the following topics:
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- The success of ancient Egyptian civilization came partly from its ability to adapt to the conditions of the Nile River Valley.
- The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world.
- The Nile ends in a large delta that empties into the Mediterranean Sea .
- The success of ancient Egyptian civilization came partly from its ability to adapt to the conditions of the Nile River Valley.
- Support the reasons why the Nile River was so influencial in ancient Egyptian civilization.
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- Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, and architecture produced by the civilization in the Nile Valley from 5000 BCE to 300 CE.
- Ancient Egyptian art includes the painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts produced by the civilization in the lower Nile Valley from 5000 BCE to 300 CE.
- Most of the population and cities of Egypt lie along those parts of the Nile valley north of Aswan, and nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found along riverbanks.
- The Nile ends in a large delta that empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
- The ancient Egyptians quarried limestone all along the Nile Valley, granite from Aswan, and basalt and sandstone from the wadis (valleys) of the eastern desert.
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- Ancient Egyptian houses were made of mud collected from the Nile River.
- Many Egyptian towns situated near the cultivated area of the Nile Valley have disappeared, either by flooding as the river bed slowly rose during the millennia, or the mud bricks of which they were built were used by peasants as fertilizer.
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- The Kingdom of Kush was an ancient African state situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile, and River Atbara in what is now the Republic of Sudan.
- Kushite pharaohs built and restored many temples and monuments throughout the Nile Valley, and the construction of Kushite pyramids became widespread.
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- The cavernous underground temple, cut into the rock cliffs on the eastern side of the Nile, was admired by the Greeks during their occupation of Egypt, who compared the goddess to their hunter goddess, Artemis.
- The Temple of Hatshepsut was designed and implemented at a site on the West Bank of the Nile River, near the entrance to what now is called the Valley of the Kings, because of all the pharaohs who later chose to associate their complexes with the grandeur of hers.
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- Mud was collected from the nearby Nile River, placed in molds, and left to dry and harden in the hot sun until they formed bricks for construction.
- The fortress itself extended more than 150 meters along the west bank of the Nile, covering 13,000 square meters, and had within its wall a small town laid out in a grid system.
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- Canal construction from the Nile to the Red Sea began.
- In May 525 BCE, Cambyses defeated Psamtik III in the Battle of Pelusium in the eastern Nile Delta.
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- When the Persians took over Egypt, Naucratis remained an important Greek port, and the colonists were used as mercenaries by both the rebel Egyptian princes and the Persian kings, who later gave them land grants, spreading the Greek culture into the valley of the Nile.
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- Originating in the Nile River Valley, early African art depicts a variety of human and animal life executed using both rock-art methods of painting and engraving.
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- For instance, red skin painted on characters implied vigorous, tanned youths; yellow skin was used for women or middle-aged men who worked indoors; blue or gold indicated divinity because of its unnatural appearance and association with precious materials; and the use of black for royal figures expressed the fertility of the Nile from which Egypt was born.