... civilization formed along the Nile river and the earliest traces of human life in that region are from the Paleolithic Age, Old Stone Age, about 300,000 B.C., at the very edges of the Nile Valley"(National Geographic). Beyond, on both sides of the river the land was and still is desert. At ... grew food by the Nile and lived mainly by hunting for meat, fishing, and gathering wild plants. They kept a small number of cattle, sheep, or goats, and grew a few crops. Their crops were flax, barley, and a primitive kind of wheat called emmer. They got the sheep and goats from the middle east .....

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