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__Ancient Egypt__
By Regan Batt and Evan

__ Overview __ //[|Ancient Egypt]// lasted for approximately 3000 years until the Romans took over the country and it turned to a Roman Province. Daily life in ancient Egypt was almost all tied to the Nile River //.The Nile River// and the fertile land along its banks, has yearly flooding which makes the soil enriched and damp, which brought good harvests and fortune to the land. The people of ancient Egypt constructed mud brick homes and formed villages in Egypt. Most ancient Egyptians worked as farmers, craftsmen and book copiers, while A small group of people were nobles, and which these people created the population for ancient Egypt.

__ Geography __ Most of Egypt is a barren sandy desert.The ancient Egyptians thought of Egypt as being divided into two types of land, being the //“Black land”, and the “red land”.// The black land was used for farming, and was some of the only area that could be used for farming due to the monthly flooding which created black silt, which was rich in nutrients, so it would be ideal to farm there. There was also the “Redland”. What “The 'Red land’. Was a barren desert which protected Egypt from invading countries for many years on two sides of Egypt. The land also presented itself to have valuable and stones.The Nile River has yearly flooding that creates //silt //which is where the ancient Egyptians farmed.

__ Climate __ Egypt has a extremely, hot and dry climate. Egypt only has two seasons in the year being winter and summer. The summers are very hot with the season lasting May to October at an average 95 degrees Fahrenheit. The winters are still warm with average degrees of 48 Fahrenheit. The houses in Ancient Egypt don’t have Windows so the cool air can flow into their homes. There Was some rain in the season of winter, but much less than the summer, and rain was a problem because there houses was made of clay. Egyptians were well equipped for there long warm seasons.

The Black Land __And the__ Redland


__ Pyramids __ There roughly 138 ancient pyramids found in Egypt as of 2008. Most were built as tombs for the country's Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. The earliest known Egyptian pyramids are found at Saqqara, and that is north of Memphis. The earliest discovered pyramid is the Pyramid of Djoser that was built between2630 BCE and 2611. This pyramid and some of the buildings beside it are some of the world’s oldest monumental structures .It is guessed that it took as much as 100 000 thousand people to build every single pyramid. The most popular pyramids to see are the ones found east to Egyptian city Cairo in the old city of Giza, and some of these today are some of the largest structures built. The Largest pyramid in Egypt is the pyramid of khufu in Giza ,and is one of the seven wonders of the world.

Pyramid of Dojoser (Egypt's oldest Pyramid)
__Modern Lessons__ People today still farm on the in the silt surrounding the Nile River and still farm the same things today. Egyptians have been growing crops of wheat, barley, vegetables, figs, melons, pomegranates and vines for centuries now. They also grew there flax which was an ideal source for clothing. The Ancient Egyptians didn’t have forests or many trees so they had to make their houses out of dried mud, or out of rock like sandstone. Now Egyptians have better technology and they can make there housing out of a variety of things, but they need it all to be imported, so there are still many houses in Egypt made from native rock. This is a house made out of dried mud made into bricks

Ancient Egypt also had a pharaoh which would be like a modern day dictator which ruled both upper and lower Egypt. This system is still going on in many countries which most are now in Asia and Africa. Egyptian pharaoh

Ancient egyptians had simple farming tools such as hoes, rakes and ploughs we still use versions of this while farming and even gardening today. The egyptians were very resourceful when it came to watering their crops. They built resovoirs to trap and hold water theses resovoirs wood fill during the flood. Many countries still practice this useful use of water. Ancient egyptian sickle Shaduf is a machine used to move water to water the crops

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