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Text Appearing Before Image: 1-54 Text Appearing After Image: Egypt—The Gift of the Nile 107 journeying across dreary wildernesses and amid barbaric tribes, to study withtheir shrewdly watchful eyes a people almost their equals. For in this distantvalley they encountered a civilization unlike yet nearly as advanced as thatwhich they themselves had built up in Babylonia. In the story we have so far followed, we have seen that the chief move-ments of mans growth, the tale of his slowly rising culture and political power,continued to centre in the \alley of the Euphrates from the very earliest be-ginnings down to the time of the decay of the first Persian empire. Butmeanwhile, strangely enough, there was growing up in this other similar rivervalley of the Nile another w^hoUy independent and oddly contrasting civili-zation. Egypt, lying far off in Africa, apart from the main highroad ofmigrating nations, and protected from invasion by the surrounding deserts, wasnot, like Babylonia, a great melting pot wherein many races mixed, unitingmany languag
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