The Nile River and Trade RASSI

THE NILE RIVER AND TRADE RASSI

By : Steven Kingkiner

RESTATE AND ANSWER Evidence that the Nile River was important to the Egyptians survival was that the Nile river over flowed it banks every year. Also it supported ways for transportation. And ways to trade.

SUPPORT A way they that the Nile River showed evidence that it was important to Egyptians survival was that it overflowed it’s banks each year. When it overflowed it’s banks it deposited fertile soil. Then the Egyptians used the fertile soil for

farming. And when the Egyptians farmed they had crops to eat. When they had crops they had plenty of food to eat, which meant that the extra crops they had were surplus foods. And with the surplus they could stock up on the crops, they were able to eat food when it came to Winter

and droughts. Also they did not have to farm as much when they had surplus foods to eat.

SUPPORTAnother way that the Nile River is important to the

Egyptians survival is trade and transportation. When they needed to trade they used boats to

trade there items to other cities. Another reason is that if they needed to travel they could traveled threw the Nile River by boat, instead of traveling

by foot. Every city is near the Nile River so whenever they needed to trade something they would just travel down or up the Nile River in a boat. Finally, they could go fishing in the boats

farther out into the Nile River.

INSIGHTThe Egyptians are very lucky to have the Nile River as one of their main resources. It was

easy for trade and transportation. With many fish in the river it was easy for them to hunt for them. The Egyptians were lucky and unlucky

when the river overflowed its banks. They were lucky because it deposited fertile soil, they

were unlucky because it destroyed their crops.

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