How The Nile River Changed My Culture

At dawn, I awoke to the calm sounds of the Nile River and prepared for a day out in the fields. The river provided rich soil for farming and provided drinking water for the animals in my community. I slid out of bed and went to awaken an ox to help me plow the fields. I thought back to when my ancestors had no farming and animals weren’t domesticated. Every day they hunted and gathered, making each day a struggle to survive. If you didn’t find any food by the end of the day, you could die and without domesticated animals they didn’t have milk, wool, or an animal to help out on the farm. Thank god our technology has advanced.
I walked into the “town” and through my community in order to reach where we kept our cattle. No longer were we a nomadic civilization, we were now a settled community. With the new technology of farming, we no longer needed to gather whatever we could find in the wilderness, we could now produce our own food and stay in one place. My communities houses were located in

I didn’t own my own animals, our community shared animals. Speaking of animals, I wondered how my son had done while hunting today. We had invented new weapons out of stone, bone, and wood that had truly improved the hunting in our community. We had also developed a spoken language, making it easy for hunters to communicate with one another if they find an animal that they need help taking down. I brought the wool and milk along with my crop’s home and was satisfied to see food waiting for me. My wife had cooked a wildebeest that my son must have caught and as I had assumed, there was warm milk and vegetables set up on stone slabs on the floor. With a sigh, I sat down next to my wife and son, finishing my food in less than five minutes. Working from dawn to dusk was exhausting, and built up quite an appetite. I looked at my families tired faces and realized that we all had it hard, but not as hard as our