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Much of Egypt’s history
politically and demographically revolves around the Nile River. Cohen “…shares with Davis an interest in how
visions of the environment, and how they have changed over time, inflect
notions of social identity, national and otherwise.” (Davis, p. 12). This is seen with the idea that the Ottoman
Empire built irrigation in Egypt although, still trying to be proved. Then the French believed they could irrigate
Egypt through the Sarah and build forestry in the desert. Beginning with what history we do have, we
see that during the Ottoman Empire, society developed a pattern around the Nile
and how it flowed. The swamp lands, to the
peasants in more agricultural areas and then the urbanized areas created the
hierarchy of the country. From its origin Egypt has had many different styles
of political powers in place, Pharaohs as god, to Ottomans, to Rome, to Islam,
to present day Egypt. With all of the
changes the constant is the Nile River and its bearing on the economy of the
different political powers. Ottoman,
Rome, French and British all found ways to exploit the Nile with dams and irrigation
ideas.
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Davis, Diana K.,
and Burke, Edmund, eds. 2011. Ecology and
History: Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa.
Athens, OH, USA: Ohio University Press. Accessed August 16, 2015. ProQuest
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“Musical chairs; Egyptian Politics.” The Economist 1 Mar. 2014: 43(US). Academic OneFile. Web. 16 Aug. 2015.
Sprusansky, D.
(2014). Egyptian Ministers Discuss
Politics, Economy. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 33(4),
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