The Foundations of Western Civilization

Egypt - The Gift of the Nile (1x3)

Data emisji: Sty 01, 2002

As Sumer was the gift of the Tigris and Euphrates, so Egypt; a ribbon of fertile floodplain 750 miles long but not much more than 15 miles wide; has been called the gift of the Nile. But the differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia tell us as much as the similarities.