Suez Canal
...that when people from other countries come along on the ships, transporting goods, or whatever they bring part of their culture and eventually part of their culture, and, or ideas will rub off onto surrounding people. Then considering the fact that around 25,000 ships come the canal each year that is a lot of culture. The canal also made transportation of goods easier which, in turn, means that a larger variety of products will get to the surrounding people. Without the canal ships would have to sail all the way around the southern tip of Africa to get to the other side of the peninsula. Second, it has great influence on the spread of ideas and religion. Because the canal made travel easier more people brought their ideas with them. The history of the Suez Canal began during the 13 century in the BC It was the canal that linked both the Nile River Delta and the Red Sea. Unfortunately over the next thousands years the canal was almost totally neglected. In the eighth century AD all hopes of keeping the canal in good condition were finally abandoned.. On April 25, 1959, excavation of the canal was started and it took over 10 years to open. When it finally opened on November 17, 1969, the total cost of the canal was about 100 million dollars. Over many years there have been many fights over the Suez canal. The Suez Canal under the terms of the 1888 convention was open to all nations without discrimination during peace and wartime. In 1936, Great Britain gained the right to defend the canal under the Anglo-Egyption Treaty. Then in 1948 Egypt prohibited the transit of Israeli vessels. Over the next few years Egypt demanded that Britain withdraw from the canal, and the two countries signed a seven year contract superseding the 1936 agreement, according to which all British military had to be out of the canal by 1966. Britain kept their word and left the canal. On July 26, 1956, shortly after the United States and Great Britain withdrew their offers to help finance the construction of the Aswan High Dam, the Egyptian government seized the Suez Canal in accordance with a decree of nationalization issued by President Gamal Abdel Nassar. Nassar announced that Egypt planned to use the proceeds from the operation of the canal to finance their dam. On October 29, 1956 Israel invaded Egypt. Two days later, Britain and the French military units attacked Egypt for the announced purpose of keeping passage through the canal free. In relation, Egypt sank 40 ships in the canal effective...