It was used to protect Athens from attacks :)
United States, Germany and the Scandinavian coutries represent a low-context culture due to they have an explicit type of communication based on clear, defined and well-expressed information in the messages that are sent. It could be considered this way according to the explanations given by Edward T. Hall in his 1959 book called <em>The Silent Language. </em>
Most of Maghreb (North Africa) resembles Arabian peninsula the most. That is the Physical geography part. Egypt from the earliest times was demographically, ethnically, culturally & socially contiguous with the Levant (Asia's West Coast on the Mediterranean Sea) from where the influence spread west till the Atlantic Ocean. Then (in those times) they weren't aware that theirs was a different continent (as most American school children think now, "if they are from different continents they should be different").<span> </span>
They have been childless for years.