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Content: The soil was perfect for farming. There was fresh water with fish to catch, and animals to hunt. ( fish, ducks, geese, hippos, crocodiles, giraffes, and ostriches. Human Settlement in Egypt and Kush
The topography of the river also encouraged human settlement. The Nile had wide flat areas that were good for farming, that were watered by the Niles annual flooding. Vegetation was rare in the dry deserts, but it was plentiful in the Nile River valley. Useful plants included reeds and a tough water plant called papyrus. People wove reeds into baskets and roofs for their huts. They used papyrus to make rope and paper. The rich farmland made it easy to grow crops like what and barley.