The Nile - What isn't it for Ancient Egypt? It was how they got their water, their crops were grown on the flooded banks, it was how they worked out the taxes, it was everything yet still a great river. Every year it flooded, leaving wet banks where the crops and food was grown. They ancient Egyptians had a scale of reading the depth of the water, which was how they worked out how much food the farmers could keep, and how much they could give to the market to feed the rest of Egypt. The richer people would go out on boat rides, and, on the odd occasion, would swim in the Crocodile-invested waters. Because of these beasts, the Egyptians would throw their enemies in the water for the Crocodiles to eat.
This is also how the Egyptians built the great pyramid; they shipped the limestone blocks up the river to the building-site, and so on and so on.
Isn't the Nile so interesting? It is amazing what it must do to flood so much that on farms, the only thing the farmers could ues to tell apart each other's land was tall rocks marking the boundaries in a line!
ReplyDeleteya the nile is so interesting .I wander if they were really rich and they had big houses like mansion's i wish i was there now .i like these Egypt blogs so much there amazing and so cool
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