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Identifier: ancientworldfrom00west (find matches)
Title: The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 A. D
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ng the new Nile. The river begins to 15 16 EGYPT (§10 rise in July, swollen by tropical rains at its upper course indistant Abyssinia; and it does not fully recede into its regular-channel until November. During the days while the flood isat its height, Egypt is a sheet of turbid water, spreading be-tween two lines ofrock and sand.The waters aredotted with townsand villages, andmarked off intocompartments byraised roads, run-ning from town totown; while froma sandy plateau,at a distance, thepyramids lookdown upon thescene, as they havedone each seasonfor five thousandyears. As thewater retires, therich loam dressing,brought down fromthe hills of Ethi-opia, is left spreadover the fields, re-newing their won-derful fertilityfrom year to year;while the long soaking supplies moisture to the soil for thedry months to come. 10. The Inhabitants. — The oldest records yet found inEgypt reach back to about 5000 b.c. At that time the useof bronze was already well advanced. Eemains in the soil
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110) THE NILE 17 show that there had been earlier dwellers using rude stoneimplements and practising savage customs. How many thou-sands of years it took for this savagery to develop into theculture of 5000 b.c. we do not know. Culture is almost a synonym for civilization; but it is also used in a some-what broader sense, to include the stages of savagery and barbarism thatprecede true civilization. It is common to speak of the invention of pot-tery as the point at which savagery passes into barbarism, and the invention of the alphabet as the transition from barbarism to civilization.

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  • booksubject:History__Ancient
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