Ancient Egypt Achievements

Egyptians were highly skilled at many tasks. Their achievements laid out a foundation for many advances throughout history. The Ancient Egyptians made many important contributions in fields of agriculture and architecture by making an irrigation system from the water source from the Nile, the pyramids and temples, and their skills in math being improved because of the unpredictable floods from the Nile. One of the greatest achievements of the ancient Egyptians was the advancement of the irrigation system. Irrigation is the watering of dry land with the use of man-made streams, canals, or pipes. If the irrigation system were never made in Egypt, the civilization would not have been able to survive the arid desert conditions for long. The Early Egyptians dug out basins, or bowl-shaped holes, to catch the deluge of the annual Nile flood. A device called a shadoof was used to lift the water from the Nile to basins and stored water until the dry months. They released water into canals to let it progress to crops or other barren areas. When land is irrigated it means more land for cattle to graze and crops to grow.
The Great pyramids of Egypt date back 4,000 years and serve as one of the most exceptional and architectural achievement in human history.
The process of building a pyramid required workers to use copper tools to cut huge blocks of granite and the limestone. Pyramids were extremely important to the Egyptians because they believed that after death, the soul comes back to the body. Subsequently, the conserved the dead body of the Pharaoh by administering chemicals in it, a process called mummification. The Egyptians were so skilled at stonecutting that most of the stones they cut fit exactly together. Another architectural achievement was the temples. The Pharaohs built them in order to please the gods and goddesses. The Karnak temple at Thebes is the largest temple of Egypt and meant for the worship of Amon-Ra or the sun
god. During the annual Nile flood, the boundary marker for farmer’s field were washed away causing the farmers to re-measure their fields every year afterwards. This led them to become extremely proficient in math, especially geometry. They learned to measure areas of squares and circles and how to figure out volumes of cylinders and spheres. Another innovation the flooding of the Nile led to was the development of calendars. The calendar consisted of 12 months each having 30 days. Five extra days were added as fest days for the gods. If they hadn’t figured out how to use mathematics in their daily lives such as building pyramids or marking their boundaries for farmland, people today would never have learned what mathematics even is. In conclusion, we really do have the Egyptians to thank for a lot of the things people have today. They made plenty of contributions to the fields of architecture and agriculture by forming an irrigation system, building pyramids and temples, and becoming more advanced in math. The ancient Egyptians truly were an extremely advanced civilization.