<span>During the early part of the Industrial Revolution, factory managers were generally harsh and abusive to workers. They beat them if they didn't work as hard as the managers wanted them to, and the workers couldn't do anything about it because they desperately needed the money. Managers only wanted to see progress and didn't really think much about the workers and their wellbeing, which is why this was a particularly difficult time to be a worker in a factory.</span>
Answer:
Egypt was considered isolated because the civilization was only centered along the Nile, and had geographical features that cut it off from the rest of the world.
Explanation:
To the north, the Mediterranean Sea allowed communication with Anatolia and Greece, but only by sea, not by land.
To the west, the Sahara desert was a buffer with several nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. To the East, the Sinai desert and peninsula made communications harder with Palestine, and Mesopotamia, and to the South, the Desert of Sudan made communications hard with Nubia and Ethiopia.
The benefit was a lower probability of conflict or invasion from other tribes, but it also had a drawback and was lesser trade and integration.
A drawing by Leonardo Davinci