what did egyptians use to move water?

Answer 1

If you're talking about irrigation, I think they built terraces, similar to the Oriental-style rice paddies.

Answer 2

There are two, with variant spellings: saqiya and shaduf. These were devices for lifting water from the Nile and its channels to higher, dry farmland.

The saqiya relied on animal power and the shaduf on human-powered leverage.

The saqiya used gears and a sort of rope-conveyor to move buckets full of water up from low channels to high, dry agricultural land. It may not have been an ancient Egyptian device, but it was used in Egypt at least since the Islamic invasion, and very likely since long before it (the region having long ties before Islam).

The shaduf was basically a counterweighted pole on a pivot, with a long end supporting a bucket which scooped water, the person holding the short (counterweighted) end pushing down to lift the bucket, and swivelling it from the Nile channel source to the irrigation channel destination.

Answer 3

The Greek mathematician, Archimedes, invented a method of lifting water by means of a screw shaped wooden contraption. To this day it is still used. It is usually called the Archimedes Screw. There are other methods most commonly still used in Egypt today. A crane device with a heavy weight balanced at one end and a bucket at the other.

The Egyptians invented the plough and probably a great deal more besides. If you can build pyramids you can do pretty much everything.

Answer 4

I think you mean irrigation. Throughout the years, egyptians developed several different irrigation techniques. The type of irrigation depended largely on the area. You can find a good description of the techniques here:
http://www.fofweb.com/Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=AFR0277
Because of Greek influence on Egypt, new techniques were brought from that country, as well as from Rome in later years.
Although simple, these techniques were really ingenious. Particularly Archimedes' Screw, although some people believe the screwpump was actually used first in 600 B.C. in Babylon.

Answer 5

To Draw it from the Nile A Bucket on the end of a pole which system is called a shadouf.

To transport it they are related by Herodotus to have gathered up and used emptied wine Amphorae supplied by greek merchants

Answer 6

The great pyramids at Giza were used as waterworks for pumping water from the Nile to the vast fields, while the Cheops (Khufu) pyramid was the largest waterworks of ancient Egypt. In short, that is the essence of a theory put forth by Mikhail Volgin, an engineer from Kiev, Ukraine. Volgin believes he has unraveled the mystery of the pyramids that dates back to 26th century B.C. Well, the Kiev engineer is not the first one to generate similar theories…
Cheops pyramid was the largest waterworks of ancient Egypt
Scientists and researchers produced lots of theories in an attempt to learn the purpose of the pyramids. Some theories claimed the pyramids were used as a tomb for the rulers of ancient Egypt. Others maintained the gigantic structures were used as observatories or equipment for marking water levels during the flooding of the Nile. According to a number of other theories, the pyramids were built for landing alien spaceships, storing grain, and damping vibrations in the earth’s crust during earthquakes.

Using the pyramids as waterworks is a novelty of sorts. Volgin lists the following arguments in proof of his theory.
Life in Egypt, whose territory is composed of deserts by 96%, depends on water, and therefore centers on the valley of the great river Niles. The Niles is subject to flooding twice a year. Everything in the areas flooded by the Niles burst into blossom. Any drought, regardless of its cause, results in famine and death. The Ethiopians, the southern neighbors of the Egyptians, were also highly dependent on the Nile waters. The Ethiopians threatened to divert the river bed toward the Red Sea. The move would have condemned Egypt to death.
The pharaohs failed to find a long-term solution to the problem. Neither hostilities nor diplomatic efforts could prevent the treacherous Nubians from building a dam that would give rise to famine and death for the whole Egypt.
That was the reason why the thrifty rulers of the Upper and Lower Egypt were extremely concerned about the building of an independent water supply network. Waterworks, water canals and reservoirs were regarded, in terms of modern language, as facilities of strategic importance.
The great pharaohs of III-IV dynasties should be called madmen suffering from delusions of grandeur if we continue to view the pyramids as gigantic tombs. It took from 20 to 30 years to build a pyramid, not to mention heaps of money spent on the project, and hundreds of thousands of subjects who broke their backs “in the heat and the rain,/ with whips and chains,/ to see him fly,/ so many die,” – was it all for the purpose of building an impressive tombstone?

Answer 7

A device called the archimeds screw and is still used to this day, although it is surposed to have been invented by archimedes history thinks most likley not

Answer 8

Shaduf, simple weighted arm on a fulcrum with a leather bucket on the other end.

Answer 9

ewers they are a pottery type jug

Answer 10

pots or jugs duh!, ur welcome toodles