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Understanding and taking advantage of the flood cycles of the Nile River allowed the ancient Egyptians to.

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Understanding the taking advantage of flood cycles of the Nile River, allowed the ancient Egyptians to create a calendar based around these flood cycles.

These cycles could often be compared to other events in the atmosphere and overall helped predict when to plant their crops, and when to harvest them.

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a. the Egyptians were able to use the floods to their benefit, such as to irrigate crops

Step-by-step explanation:

Egyptian civilization profited from the Nile River and its deltas.

From time to time, flooding will cause conditions for extreme fertilization of the soil. When Egyptians were able to predict these happenings, they used the fertile soil left. Rich agriculture developed providing the opportunity to store and create a surplus of crops.

A complex irrigation system formed from the river banks,

Some of the crops essential for everyday life, still today can be found

Beans, cotton, wheat, and flax all were easily stored and traded.

The papyrus plant eventually transformed in many things, like the papyrus

The civilization than had a high population that later formed a powerful Empire.

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