The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . 110] THE NILE 17 show that there had been earlier dwellers using rude stoneimplements and practising savage customs. How many thou-sands of years it took for this savagery to develop into theculture of 5000 we do not know. Culture is almost a synonym for civilization; but it is also used in a some-what broader sense, to include the stages of savagery and barbarism thatprecede true civilization. It is common to speak of the invention of pot-tery as the point at which savagery passes into barbarism, and the invention of the alphabet as
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . 110] THE NILE 17 show that there had been earlier dwellers using rude stoneimplements and practising savage customs. How many thou-sands of years it took for this savagery to develop into theculture of 5000 we do not know. Culture is almost a synonym for civilization; but it is also used in a some-what broader sense, to include the stages of savagery and barbarism thatprecede true civilization. It is common to speak of the invention of pot-tery as the point at which savagery passes into barbarism, and the invention of the alphabet as the transition from barbarism to Photograph of a Modern Egyptian Woman sitting by a SculpturedHead of an Ancient Masperos Dawn of the likeness of feature. The skulls of the modern peasants and ofthe ancient nobles are remarkably alike in form. Probably the cheap food of the valley attracted tribes fromall the neighboring regions at an early date. The struggles ofthese peoples, and the intermingling of the strongest of them,at length produced the vigorous Egyptian race of race contained the blood of Abyssinian, Berber,^ Negro, iThe Berbers are the short dark race of North Africa from whom theMoors are descended. 18 EGYPT [§ 11 and Arabian, and possibly of other peoples; but before the be-ginning of history these had all been welded into one typewhich has lasted to the present day. 11. Growth of a Kingdom. — The first inhabitants lived byfishing along the streams and hunting fowl in the marshesWhen they began to take advantage of their rare opportunityfor agriculture, new
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