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The statement that "Egypt is the gift of the river Nile" is attributed to
Answer: B
The statement that Egypt is the gift of the river Nile is attributed to Herodotus, the Greek historian of the fifth century B.C. who travelled in Egypt and described how the annual flood of the Nile made the land fertile. Aristotle, Strabo and Seneca wrote on other matters, and the phrase is credited to Herodotus. The answer is B. Herodotus noted that the delta of the Nile was built of silt from the river, and he called Egypt a gift of the river in the sense that the land owed its soil and crops to the annual flood.
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