The area of Egypt and the Nile delta comprises one of the largest deltas in the world, extended along 240 kilometres of the Mediterranean shore. The delta starts a bit more to the North from the Egyptian capital, El Cairo.
It is an extremely rich agricultural area, which constituted the basis of the ancient civilizations established in the region. It has been exploited for thousand of years, due to the particularity that it used to flood anually, and the sediments left became high quality fertilizers for crops. Nowadays it has not flooded anymore since the construction of the Aswan Dam.
About 39 million people inhabit this area, and the largest city is Alexandria. Even though this region is economically quite important, it also registers most data-poor regions with respect to sea level rise
B. Hoovervilles. The shanty towns were named after Herbert Hoover
very poor conditions, diseased boats, lack of sanitary food and water, lots of rats where food was stored...
C) to maintain a balance of power in Europe
Some white abolitionists worried about the effect free African Americans would have on society. The American Colonization Society then planned to send free African Americans to Africa to start new lives.
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