Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/253/en

In the parallel cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt — as also in the preceding cultures of ancient Persia and ancient India — the untameable water was the dominant factor in the "organism of natural growth." Now, however, the water-forces of the rivers were mastered through embankments, far-reaching canal and ditch systems, sluices, and the like. To the furthest-reaching degree this held for Egypt, where year upon year, anew, after the retreat of the water-masses flooding the valley, the soils freshly manured by Nile silt had to be drained, thereafter irrigated again, and harvested quickly before the next inundation. Year upon year anew