Nilometer In Ancient Egypt
The Ancient Egyptians developed a system of ”Nilometers”at various points along the Nile River.A Nilometer is a structure used for measuring the Nile River’s clarity.
In Ancient Egypt,the construction of water works,canals and land reclamation projects were of major importance of the pharaoh and the government.
Too little water would cause of famine,and too much water would limit the sowing of the annual flood.
The design of the irrigation depended on knowing in advance the height of the annual flood.They would have floods between June and September.
Agriculture and Horticulture in Ancient Egypt:
The building of the dams at right angles to the flow of the Nile,separating the Nile Valley into basin,precedes the Old Kingdom.
In most countries heavy ploughs have to be used to turn over the soil,so that the growing plants get enough nutrients,but in Egypt the Nile flood deposited the nutrients on top,and the ploughing served just to break the top soil before sowing or for covering the seed afterwards. …show more content…
Occurrences of corn dearth were frequent .Some estimate that there would have been sufficient.
n striking contrast to the early Indus civilization and those of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria in Mesopotamia, the great Egyptian civilization in the Nile River valley has sustained itself for some 5,000 years without interruption. It lasted through warfare and conquest by the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Turks, as well as through pandemic disease that devastated its population.
The Nile would flood every year between June and September.The water comes for melting snow and heavy summer rain.It flow from the Ethiopian highlands down to the Nile River.
Egyptian farmers then had before them well-watered fields that had been naturally fertilized by the rich silt carried down from Ethiopia's highlands and deposited on the floodplain as the water spread over it. They planted wheat and other crops just as the mild winter was beginning, and harvested them in mid-April to early
May.
Ancient Egyptian Agriculture:Agriculture was the foundation of the ancient Egyptian economy and vital to the lives of the people of the land.The story of the death and resurrection of the god Osiris, for example, is thought to have initially been an allegory for the life-giving inundation of the Nile, and numerous gods throughout Egypt's history are directly or indirectly linked to the river's flood.Once the field was plowed, then workers with hoes(a hoe is a kind of tool they use to farm) broke up the clumps of soil and sowed the rows with seed. These hoes were made of wood and were short-handled (most likely because wood was scarce in Egypt and so wooden products were expensive) and so to work with them was extremely labor-intensive.
In Ancient Egypt,the construction of water works,canals and land reclamation projects were of major importance of the pharaoh and the government.
Too little water would cause of famine,and too much water would limit the sowing of the annual flood.
The design of the irrigation depended on knowing in advance the height of the annual flood.They would have floods between June and September.
Agriculture and Horticulture in Ancient Egypt:
The building of the dams at right angles to the flow of the Nile,separating the Nile Valley into basin,precedes the Old Kingdom.
In most countries heavy ploughs have to be used to turn over the soil,so that the growing plants get enough nutrients,but in Egypt the Nile flood deposited the nutrients on top,and the ploughing served just to break the top soil before sowing or for covering the seed afterwards. …show more content…
Occurrences of corn dearth were frequent .Some estimate that there would have been sufficient.
n striking contrast to the early Indus civilization and those of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria in Mesopotamia, the great Egyptian civilization in the Nile River valley has sustained itself for some 5,000 years without interruption. It lasted through warfare and conquest by the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Turks, as well as through pandemic disease that devastated its population.
The Nile would flood every year between June and September.The water comes for melting snow and heavy summer rain.It flow from the Ethiopian highlands down to the Nile River.
Egyptian farmers then had before them well-watered fields that had been naturally fertilized by the rich silt carried down from Ethiopia's highlands and deposited on the floodplain as the water spread over it. They planted wheat and other crops just as the mild winter was beginning, and harvested them in mid-April to early
May.
Ancient Egyptian Agriculture:Agriculture was the foundation of the ancient Egyptian economy and vital to the lives of the people of the land.The story of the death and resurrection of the god Osiris, for example, is thought to have initially been an allegory for the life-giving inundation of the Nile, and numerous gods throughout Egypt's history are directly or indirectly linked to the river's flood.Once the field was plowed, then workers with hoes(a hoe is a kind of tool they use to farm) broke up the clumps of soil and sowed the rows with seed. These hoes were made of wood and were short-handled (most likely because wood was scarce in Egypt and so wooden products were expensive) and so to work with them was extremely labor-intensive.