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Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris. This is episode 23, pre-Donastic Egypt. Oh, Egypt is a modern country but but in terms of the Neolithic period, we are looking at the

Noel Valley as the fertile lands of Egypt.

The desiccation of the Sahara Desert started as a result of the warming of the climate since the last glacial maximum,

and many humans have migrated to a life around the Nile River by the start of the Neolithic.

It appears through the archaeological record that agricultural lifestyles developed

from around 8,000 B.C. onwards and that there was a connection of culture to the fertile crescent as opposed to Egypt developing

in total independence from the Asian lands of the fertile crescent.

It does appear also that the peoples of the Nile Valley did not immediately

become sedentary farmers and that there was a period of nomadic pastoralism, which is basically the controlled herding of wild animals.

There is also evidence that humans had a very intimate knowledge of wild grasses and knew how to take care of and harvest such plants.

So although they were not domesticating fauna and flora in a way that we would associate with

the Neolithic they were certainly carrying out control of these things which

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