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Egypt is not a "proper" country. It is simply a string of settlements along the banks of Nile river and its delta. Don't let the large trapezoid shape fool you
by vfclists 6y ago
Egypt is not a "proper" country. It is simply a string of settlements along the banks of Nile river and its delta.
Don't let the large trapezoid shape fool you. Most of that is the result of a line on the ground drawn by colonialists.
If you want see a country like Egypt look at the Gambia, another country drawn along the eponymous river wholly surrounded by Senegal, another product of colonial machinations.
- 8note 6y agoOr look at Canada, a string of settlements on the US border. See also: Nevada
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoI seem to recall the US is also the result of lines in the ground drawn by colonialists.
- Etheryte 6y agoRoughly 70% of the world population lives within 5 km of a body of water [0]. By this definition, every country is a string of settlements along water. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110782/
- wl 6y agoThe difference is that many places have more bodies of water for people to live next to. In Egypt, you've got the Nile, the Faiyum, and a smattering of oases.
- scythe 6y agoOver 90 million people live on that insignificant river! Egypt was the center of the Mughal Sultanate that beat the Crusaders and the Mongols. They went into decline under the Ottomans and never really recovered — infamously, they faced the Ottoman guns with swords and bows in 1517 and were unceremoniously trounced.
- scythe 6y agos/Mughal/Mamluk/ for those wondering why I placed an Indian dynasty in Egypt
- oblio 6y agoThat's a strange thing to call one of the cradles of civilization...
- imtringued 6y agoYou know, if the land near the nile is so valuable and the land far away from it is not, then why would you be jealous over it? No country can do anything with it.