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i am doing this project about egypt inventions i need web sites

2006-12-18 05:07:46 · 10 answers · asked by sandro 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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List of Inventions in Ancient Egypt

Black Ink
First Ox-Drawn Plows
365 Day Calendar and Leap Year
Paper
First Triangular Shaped Pyramids
Organized labor
Hieroglyphics as an early system of writing
Sails

One of the inventions before Christ in Egypt was surprisingly black ink. The Egyptian people were very talented at creating not only black ink, but many multi-colored types of ink and dye. The process and depth of color utilized in the Egyptian invention of ink and dye was so marvelous that these brilliant hued colors can still be seen today, thousands of years later.

While not thought of in quite the same aspects as the technology we know today, the first ox-draws plows that appeared in Egypt as early as 2500 B.C. were; nevertheless ancient Egypt technological inventions. Skilled metal working would have been required in order to form a workable plow, as well as animal husbandry. One might wonder why the ancient Egyptians would have even needed ox-drawn plows when the majority of the Egyptian nation consists of deserts. While there certainly is a great amount of sweeping desert land in Egypt, the nation is also the home of extremely fertile black soil along the banks of the Nile River. This soil makes a very hospitable environment for growing crops such as wheat, in addition to a multitude of vegetables. Ancient Egyptian inventions, such as the ox-drawn plow, would have made farming much easier and more profitable.

The ancient Egyptians also have the distinct honor of having invented not only the modern 365 day calendar but the leap year system as well. Ancient civilizations recorded and marked time using a lunar calendar system. A solar system established calendar, based on twelve months of 30 days each, with five extra days, was first conceived of by the ancient Egyptians. The Egyptians also devised the leap year calendar of adding an extra day every fourth year in the year 238 B.C.



Paper was made from the papyrus plant
One of the many ancient Egyptian inventions was an early system of writing, now recognized around the world, known as hieroglyphics. Not only did the ancient Egyptians invent a system of writing, but they also invented the paper on which to place it. Taken from the fibers of the papyrus plant, Egyptian paper was the first of its kind.

While there remains speculation regarding how the ancient pyramids were constructed, it is obvious the Egyptians were the first to invent and employ organized labor on a massive scale in order to construct these magnificent stone structures. When one takes into consideration that the construction of just one pyramid often lasted several decades, the magnitude of the organized labor required becomes enormous. The first truly triangular shaped pyramids are also counted among the many ancient Egyptian inventions; although it took them several tries in order to achieve an idea model.



Sails, an Egyptian invention
Egyptian inventions also include sails. Living in such close proximity to the Nile River, it would have been imperative for the Egyptians to devise efficient methods of water transportation.

Ancient Egypt inventions in some cases revolutionized the way the world lived and in other cases, they were merely the forerunner to the technologies we enjoy today. In all cases however, ancient Egyptian inventions were truly a marvel of ancient ingenuity.

2006-12-18 05:23:46 · answer #1 · answered by vsl52 1 · 2 0

Ancient Egypt Inventions

2016-09-28 08:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Glass, Cultivation, Perfumes, Wine, Beer, Paper, Clock, Locks, Shaduf, Calendar etc Academia and Sciences : Astronomy, Agriculture, Medicines, Mathematics, Writing etc

2016-03-17 21:55:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Shadoof- early egyptians used this device to transport water from canals to fields

Paper- used the abundant papyrus plant to create this

come on, they made tons and tons and tons and tons you get the point amount of things.

2006-12-18 05:17:10 · answer #4 · answered by hj 3 · 0 1

Ancient Egypt was a long-lived civilization in north-eastern Africa. It was concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River, reaching its greatest extension during the second millennium BC, which is referred to as the New Kingdom period. It reached broadly from the Nile Delta in the north, as far south as Jebel Barkal at the Fourth Cataract of the Nile. Extensions to the geographical range of ancient Egyptian civilization included, at different times, areas of the southern Levant, the Eastern Desert and the Red Sea coastline, the Sinai Peninsula and the Western Desert (focused on the several oases)
Ancient Egypt developed over at least three and a half millennia. It began with the incipient unification of Nile Valley polities around 3150 BC and is conventionally thought to have ended in 31 BC when the early Roman Empire conquered and absorbed Ptolemaic Egypt as a state. This last, however, did not represent the first period of foreign domination; the Roman period was to witness a marked, if gradual transformation in the political and religious life of the Nile Valley, effectively marking the termination of independent civilizational development.

The civilization of ancient Egypt was based on a finely balanced control of natural and human resources, characterised primarily by controlled irrigation of the fertile Nile Valley; the mineral exploitation of the valley and surrounding desert regions; the early development of an independent writing system and literature; the organization of collective projects; trade with surrounding regions in east / central Africa and the eastern Mediterranean; finally, military ventures that exhibited strong characteristics of imperial hegemony and territorial domination of neighbouring cultures at different periods. Motivating and organising these activities were a socio-political and economic elite that achieved social consensus by means of an elaborate system of religious belief under the figure of a (semi)-divine ruler (usually male) from a succession of ruling dynasties and which related to the larger world by means of polytheistic beliefs.

The achievements of ancient Egypt are well known, and the civilization achieved a very high standard of productivity and sophiscation. The art and science of engineering was present in Egypt, such as accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them (known as surveying). These skills were used to outline pyramid bases. The Egyptian pyramids took the geometric shape formed from a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. Hydraulic cement was first invented by the Egyptians. The Al Fayyum Irrigation (water works) was one of the main agricultural breadbaskets of the ancient world. There is evidence of ancient Egyptian Pharaohs of the twelfth dynasty using the natural lake of the Fayyum as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons. From the time of the First dynasty or before, the Egyptians mined turquoise in the Sinai Peninsula.

The sarcophagus found in the great pyramid has been recently re-examined. According to the author Nigel Appleby ('Hall of the Gods') the holes drilled in the sides were considered to have been drilled at a speed and bore rate that cannot be reproduced today. Independent published corroboration by scientists and engineers is awaited for both of these claims.

The earliest evidence (circa 1600 BC) of traditional empiricism is credited to Egypt, as evidenced by the Edwin Smith and Ebers papyri. The roots of the scientific method may be traced back to the ancient Egyptians. The Egyptians created their own alphabet (however, it is debated as to whether they were the first to do this because of the margin of error on carbon dated tests), decimal system[7] and complex mathematical formularizations, in the form of the Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri. The golden ratio seems to be reflected in many constructions, such as the Egyptian pyramids,[8] however this may be the consequence of combining the use of knotted ropes with an intuitive sense of proportion and harmony.[9]

Glass making was highly developed in ancient Egypt, as is evident from the glass beads, jars, figures and ornaments discovered in the tombs.[10][11] Recent archeology has uncovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian glass factory.[12]

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2006-12-18 05:13:48 · answer #5 · answered by Suki_Sue_Curly_Q 4 · 2 2

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2006-12-18 05:16:25 · answer #6 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 0 0

i don t know web sites,i know theat they ivented the beer end ofcourse the mommis too.

2006-12-18 05:21:47 · answer #7 · answered by ionutz 1 · 0 0

i know that they rolled stones on logs to get the pyramids built, also, they used levees.

2006-12-18 05:11:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I know that they paper out of papyrus... But you can check more things out at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt.

2006-12-18 05:16:01 · answer #9 · answered by 3lixir 6 · 1 1

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2006-12-18 05:15:14 · answer #10 · answered by ~Peace~N~Love~ 3 · 0 1

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