Restate the question, including a rephrasing of the word "shape" the question is "How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt?

Without the Nile, Egyptian civilization would not have been possible. With the exception of a few oases, most of Egypt, other than the areas bordering the Nile, is inhospitable desert. Everything that demands water-drinking, cooking, animal husbandry, creating pottery-depended on the Nile bringing water from the southern mountains to lower Egypt. The Egyptians also relied on the Nile for transportation.