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    For over 5,000 years, the Nile River has sustained life in Egypt by providing irrigation for agriculture during its annual flooding. The flooding patterns effectively divided the Egyptian calendar and agricultural cycle, with peasants anxiously awaiting whether the floods would be sufficient each year. While modern dams now regulate the river, the lives of Egyptian peasants have changed little and they still rely on farming methods and tools identical to those used for millennia.

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    For over 5,000 years, the Nile River has sustained life in Egypt by providing irrigation for agriculture during its annual flooding. The flooding patterns effectively divided the Egyptian calendar and agricultural cycle, with peasants anxiously awaiting whether the floods would be sufficient each year. While modern dams now regulate the river, the lives of Egyptian peasants have changed little and they still rely on farming methods and tools identical to those used for millennia.

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    For over 5,000 years, the Nile River has sustained life in Egypt by providing irrigation for agriculture during its annual flooding. The flooding patterns effectively divided the Egyptian calendar and agricultural cycle, with peasants anxiously awaiting whether the floods would be sufficient each year. While modern dams now regulate the river, the lives of Egyptian peasants have changed little and they still rely on farming methods and tools identical to those used for millennia.

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    LIFE ON THE NILE

    For 5,000 years, the Nile has been the river of life for Egypt and its people. Sus-
    taining existence and supporting a civilization in the desert, it has also rigorously
    shaped the life of the peasants w h o have cultivated its shoreland. From the time
    of the pharaohs, the r h y t h m of the Nile has effectively divided the people's
    w o r k year. T h r o u g h the centuries, men have anxiously watched the annual flood-
    ing to learn whether the waters would rise enough to ensure irrigation during the
    growing season. The flood, one ancient writer said, was a time w h e n "the land is
    in jubilation, then every belly is in j o y " . The peasant's life has hardly changed
    at all, although modern dams, regulating the river's flow, have ended the uncer-
    tainty about water-supply. Ancient ways have persisted. Tools virtually identical
    with those pictured in ancient tombs are still used. A look at Egypt today faith-
    fully evokes the remote past, and brings to life the round of activities of those
    w h o worshipped pharaohs as gods and hailed the Nile as "creator of all g o o d " .
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