- tourism (who wouldn't want to go to Egypt?)
- oil and natural gas manufacturing.
- agricultural- making most of their limited arable land (3%) Cotton, corn, rice, fava beans.
- The Aswan Dam- controls the flooding of the Nile, and increases reclaimed land
Egypt's demographics
- 79 million people- biggest populations out of all the Middle eastern nations. # biggest African country
- Cairo: 6.7 million people.
- official language: Arabic (English, French, and German are also taught.
- religion: about 90% Muslim. The rest are mostly Christian.
- Christians do not get along with the Christians.
- 1922 was the end of protectorate with the United Kingdom.
- 1953- Egypt was declared republic.
- 1954-1970 ruled by Gamal Masser
- forms allegiance with the Soviet Union.
- 1970-1981 ruled by Anwar Sadat. Switched allegiance to the United States
- Attacked Israel and got some of their land back, but later made peace.
- Anwar Sadat was assassinated is 1981 because he wanted to make peace. ouch.
- 1981- 2011 was ruled by Hosni Mubarak. Kept and alliance with U.S and helped us with the war.
- He was accused of corruption, political persecution, human rights violations.
- He was driven from office last month. thats awkward.
- whats next for Egypt? No one knows... Now the military is running things until the September elections. There is a slight problem because the don't even have political parties.
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