Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 13, 1922, Image 3
THE EGYPT OF 1922 A. D.
King Fuail succeeds Cleopatra.
"When Great Britain abandoned
its protectorate over Egypt
^ and the sultan of the Nile coun*
try changed his title to king, he
became the first king of Egypt
since the l'tolemaie regime."says
a bulletin of the National Ueogtuphie
society.
"The old Egypt of millenniums
ago is in many ways more familiar
to the world at large than the
Egypt of today," continues the
bulletin. "Pictures of its great
pyramids and sphinxes, its cblumned
temples and rock-hewn
tombs till histories ami encyclopedias.
and inevitably the reader's
attention is centered, not on
the problems of today, but rather
on the evidences of a dead civilization.
" lint aside from the fact that
mummy hunting was for many
years one of the leading private
industries of the country, anil
that convicts today, instead of
building roads, excavate tombs
and temples for the government,
the old monuments are merely a
background for life hard enough
to center local thoughts mostly
on daily bread-winning.
" Niipcrticially, Egypt seems a
large country. The eye sees its
color spread over a considerable
pari oi the northeasterti quarter
ot the map of Africa, and statistics
credit it with an area of more
than dot).000 square miles, ltut
tin real Egypt?the part that is
habitable?is like a cord with a
trayed end: the narrow valley
ami thiring delta of the Nile. Except
u few scattered cases, most
ot the rest of the nominal Egypt
l< t t 111 >< I i I iiUitld cnn<l i??*u tn?l ui?<l
rocky hills. Of its more than a
third of a million squAre miles of
territory, about 12.000 are estimated
to be capable of cultivation.
and a considerable part of ,
Ibis lias not vet been actually
tilled.
"In comparing the Egypt of it
today with that of the dawn of h
history one is divided between t
wonder at the marked changes on v
the surface and the lack of change g
hi some fundamentals. The Kgyp- h
**"Minn of today does not speak his tl
old tongue, but instead, Arabic; tl
his old gods are forgotten, and he t
has. with the exception of a small n
minority, adopted the religion of v
Mohammed, lint in spite of nil* h
inerous invasions, llie blood of the e
great majority of the population g
lias been altered hardly at all. t
l'raet ieally, the fallahecn, or peas- v
ant. might have stepped from the 1
ancient carvings: they are but a
fresh generation of the men "who (
dragged the great blocks of stone t
into place to build the artificial z
mountains of the Pharaohs, or |i
who dropped seeds into the mud o
of the needing Nile thousands of s
years ago, even as they are drop- h
ped today. s
"Egypt's resources are almost t.
wholly agricultural, and in the s
agricultural sehenie the fellaheen <1
are the ultimate units. They work t
long hours scratching the soil '
with crude implements or tediously
raising water in skin buckets
attached to pivoted poles that the ji
11.in stream may save their plants 1
from parching. Taxes are heavy, r
pud it is the lowly fallaheen who f
keeps tli?' treasury supplied. Liv- n
in?; conditions are very poor.; and f
mud huts house most of Egypt's f
Id millions. In the fields they t
wear little more than a loin cloth, u
and the younger children of the h
villages go naked. When the fel- I
lali is 'dressed up' he wears a "
rough shirt and loose trousers.
"There is little cause to marvel
at Egypt s checkered history. A
simple reason is that she began I
early. Here is one of the earliest ii
places in which man lived an or- j
tiered life and left records of his ^
activities. Some anthropologists, g
in fact, look upon central Africa rj
as the place of origin of man, and ^
upon Egypt as one of the first j
way stations in his diffusion over
the other continents.
"After the long reign of the ?v
Pharaohs, Egypt had its Grecian 8
and Uoiuan regimes, bringing hut
few changes. Then in (>41 A. I). =
came the invasion of the Saracens,
from which time began Egypt's
Mohammedan history. For a time
the country was a province of the
Arabian caliphs; later it was in- *
dependent,- though still Mohain
medun. under tlif Mamelukes;
and finally, in 1516, it became a
province of Turkey, which eon- .
trolled it first through a governor
and later through a sort of hereditary
viceroy or khedive.
"Fort the third time Europe
took a hand in the affairs of
Egypt in 1798 when Napoleon 2
won his Bfttle of the Pyramids. 3
The British drove the French out A
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ii 1801 and turned the country
ack to Turkey. In I860 came
lie building of the Suez canal,
rhicb has given Europe an everrowing
interest in Egyptian afturs.
In 1882 the uprising against
lie khedive was suppressed by
lie British alone, and after that
liev controlled the country's fiances.
independent of France,
rith whom an agreement had
een entered in 1879 for joint
ontrol of i the finances. The
overnment was in effect Egvpian
with Britisli assistance and
rith the nominal suzerainty id'
'nrkey acknowledged.
"When the World war began
Jrcat Britain established a proectorate,
abolished Turkey's sir
erainty, deposed tlie Uermanoihile
khedive, and appointed anther
prince of the family to be
nltan. The British protectorate
s now being withdrawn, but intead
of the former Turkish ini
rests beiiig restored. Egypt is
ct up as an independent kinglorn."
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