Herodotus remarked that egypt was the “gift of the nile.” what did he mean by this?

I believe it refers to the fact that the Egyptian culture, and in general live in Egypt would not be possible without Nile's yearly flooding: Egypt was in a way the Gift of Nile to the world.

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