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Back to [[Eater of Souls]] The Asiatics have gruesome fights over the coastline, rich cities, and mountains yet Egypt keeps a calm and collected front. Zulaya says that Egypt "remains fruitful and at peace" because of the desert. The desert protects Egypt from invading armies and neighboring countries because no one can survive crossing the desert. Egypt always had bountiful amounts of crops because of the black silt that provided rich soil after the flood that occurred every year.
  
The reasons Zulaya gave for Egypt's relative peace was the distance from the quarrelsome Asiatics. He says that with the protection of the Nile and the desert, Egypt is protected from the other cities which "...snarl and claw at each other unceasingly, shed blood over scraps of coastline, over rich cities, over mountains covered with cedar" (Robinson 113).
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http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/geography/home.html
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Eater of Souls chapter 8 page 113
  
Eater of Souls 113
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Back to Eater of Souls The Asiatics have gruesome fights over the coastline, rich cities, and mountains yet Egypt keeps a calm and collected front. Zulaya says that Egypt "remains fruitful and at peace" because of the desert. The desert protects Egypt from invading armies and neighboring countries because no one can survive crossing the desert. Egypt always had bountiful amounts of crops because of the black silt that provided rich soil after the flood that occurred every year.

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Sources: http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/geography/home.html Eater of Souls chapter 8 page 113

Picture: https://mrcoolbossman.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/egypt/

-Ginger Lummis