Description acceptable. The documentary They Planted a Stone records an instance of this action being taken at Sennar (“suh-NAR”) as part of the Gezira (“juh-ZEE-ra”) Scheme. Ibn al-Qifṭi claimed that Ibn al-Haytham’s failure to perform this action led him to feign madness in order to avoid being punished by al-Ḥākim (“el HAH-keem”). One instance of this action sparked a UNESCO campaign that led the Metropolitan Museum of Art to build the Sackler Wing to house the (*) Temple of Dendur. The Soviet Union funded that example of this action which led to the relocation of Abu Simbel. One performance of this action created a “High” structure at Aswan, while another was named for a “Grand Ethiopian Renaissance.” For 10 points, name this action which created Lake Nasser and controlled Egyptian seasonal flooding. ■END■
ANSWER: damming the Nile [accept equivalents like building a dam on the Nile or building a hydropower facility on the Nile; accept Blue Nile in place of “Nile”; accept building the Aswan High Dam until “Aswan” is read; prompt on building a dam by asking “where?”; prompt on generating hydropower or generating electricity; prompt on irrigation by asking “doing what precursor to irrigation?”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, World History>
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