Practice question · Select all that apply
What makes the Nile such an unusually favourable river?
Hints
- The advantages concern fertility, navigation and defence.
- Wind and current running opposite ways makes travel possible both directions.
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- B. It floods predictably and deposits fertile silt annually
- C. Desert on both sides walls the valley
- D. It flows north while the prevailing wind blows south, so it is navigable both ways
Why
Self-renewing agriculture, two-way navigation, and free flanking defences. Egypt’s three thousand years of political continuity is not a mystery, it is a river with unusually good terms.
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