River Nile
The river Nile flows north leading to the Mediterranean Sea. The river Nile is the longest river in the world, it is 4,258 miles long and it is 2 miles wide in some places. The Nile floods every year in between June and September. The Egyptians called it the season of Akhet. Rich Egyptians built their houses up high on the hills to avoid the flooding.
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Egypt’s landscape is mainly desert, but there are two lands within it. The
black land is the fertile land by the banks of the Nile. This was the only
place where they could grow crops, because every year the Nile floods and then
there would be a layer of thick black silt which can be used to grow things in.
The other land was the red land, this is the Barron desert that protected Egypt
on two sides. This stopped other countries and invading armies, but that’s
not it. The red land also had lots of precious rocks and semi precious stones.