Egyptian History
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Egyptian History is defined by the Nile Valley, not occupied by man until after the last Ice Age. The Sahara plateau, formerly an enormous grassland, began to dry and suffer from desertification, driving humans and animals from northern Africa toward the Mediterranean coast or eastward to the banks of the Nile. In the Paleolithic, these lived on high cliffs above the valley; but their successors, the agriculturalists of the Neolithic, descended to the valley floor to plant their crops. The ebb and flow of the Nile each season would flood the land with rich deposits of mud, making it a rich land for agriculture; thus the pattern of the river would dominate every part of Egyptian culture.
