What often happened when heavy rains caused the Nile to overflow?

Answer 1

The River Nile flooded every year between June and September, in a season the Egyptians called akhet . Melting snow and heavy summer rain in the Ethiopian Mountains sent a torrent of water causing the banks of the River Nile in Egypt to overflow on the flat dessert land. The construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960's meant that from 1970 the annual flood was controlled.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

That's a loaded question. Lots of things would have happened.
1. people drowned
2. easier to catch fish
3. the land would be fertilized
4. people went swimming
5. insects like mosquitoes would increase
6. people's houses were flooded
7. irrigation increased
8. disease increased
9. Nile crocodiles would be more dangerous
10. everyone had to migrate

Answer 4

after heavy rain the atmospher became cooler and the land become wet. unfortunately flood will come and the drainage will over flow in city like mumbai, now a days in city like mubai most of them afraid about the flood.

Answer 5

the raising river levels transported tons of fertile mud up the nile. when the waters went back to normal it left the mud as deposits that the egyptians used for farmland

Answer 6

A Layer of Silt was desposited onto the earth that made it easier to farm.

Answer 7

Flood. The nutrients used to fertlize the fields, now they just fill the big reservoir with more silt. Progress.

Answer 8

lighter rains floated to the top