These communities exerted increased influence over their environments, exhibited social differentiation, and showed evidence of labor specialization. Author: User “Hel-hama” Source: Wikimedia Commons License: CC BY-SA 3.0Īt the tail end of that era of desiccation, from about 3600 to 3300 BCE, complex societies formed in areas adjacent to the Nile River. Both rivers merge at Khartoum, in present day Sudan, and flow northward to empty into the Mediterranean Sea. The Blue Nile flows from the Ethiopian Highlands.
\): The Path of the Nile | The White Nile originates near Lake Victoria, in the Great Lakes region of East Africa.
