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Around 5000 BC , herdspeople , began to settle , along side the
Nile as it provided shelter , water , protection , and land for
harvesting . When they first settled into villages , they grew
wheat and barley , and stored it in pits in the ground which were
lined with rush matting .
Then people started to take on full time jobs such as potters ,
hunters , priests etc.
Then the different tribes or villages , or by then cities , almost ,
started trading .
Egypt is located in far north-east Africa .
It is about 1085 km north to south , and 1255 east to west .
It’s total area is approximately 997 738 square kms .
Egypt has the longest river in the world running through it “The
Nile” .
The general landscape of Egypt is bare like a desert .
Less than 10% of Egypt’s area is settled or used in some way and
more than 90% is desert ,the Libyan Desert , Some of the Sahara
, and the Arabian desert .
In the Libyan desert there is a great amount of only sand with
nothing else around expect sand .
In this desert there are many 'depressions' where the land is well
below sea level .
The Quttarah Depression has an area of 18 100 square kms and
is 133 metres below sea level !
