One word Cooperate. For details sistablu has it all
2007-03-09 21:47:17
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answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5
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A good question!I would suggest that the answer is that it involved considerable cooperation. As it does today with any commumity local or state government project to improve agriculture.
The Anceint Egyptians had only a few kilometres each side of the Nile in which to live,farm and raise animals.
Egypt was divided into 40 approx. nomes or states. Each had its own form of legislation and laws that were controled by officials appointed by the Pharoah and his advisers. all desicions had to be ultimatley brought before Pharoah and his close advisors for a final agreement or refusal,also money if funding was needed.
It was very like the system in use in Australia and the United States except with out the choice of political parties.We have local government ,state government and then federal government. Where the desicions are made by the Prime Minister or President and his advisors.
The irrigation system used in ancient Egypt was quite advanced and very effective.
Not only along the Nile, but in the Delta region. Which was turned from marshy swamps of papyrus into productive land that was known a Egypts breadbasket.
This was done in the 12th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. By the use of dikes with retaining walls, canals and simple but effective hydrolics.
Along the edges of the Nile,canals were dug to allow water to run directly from the Nile into the land.
The water then flowed into a series or network of intersecting canals, that allowed the water to irrigate as far as was required by farmers for growing crops.Irrigation was also required for general agriculture, the raising of herd animals and the domestic life and existance of the population.
The Egyptian farmers worked cooperatly and never made vast use of slaves as some storytellers would have us believe.
The family worked cooperatly, with each member being given a designated task.
This not only applied to daily life, but to the planting and harvesting of crops and raising and the general maintainence of farm and herd animals.
Each family looked after their canals.
Keeping them clear of silt build up,dead animals, and other problems that could impead or taint the flow of the water to the adjoining farmer's land.
In places the height of the land would differ and slow or stop the flow.
This problem could also be present at the mouth of the canals. Where the height of the land varied greatly to the height of the Nile.
In these places a shaduf was installed. This is a sturdy framework of wood, which had an "arm" that held a large animal skin or these days a bucket attached and by simple hydrolics one man could often irrigate a large area.
The shaduf is still in use on the Nile in farming communities today.
These days the canals are concrete lined which saves water being lost by seeping into the ground.
Some of the Nile farming communities have existed on the same area for millenea.
The only reason that they ever had to move was in time of flood.
Each year the Niles annual inundation made the water level of the river rise greatly.
It also increased the force by which water travels up from Ethiopia and Uganda.These are the sources of the White and Blue Nile, that join 300k outside Khartoom to form the Nile which has no tributaries all the way to the Delta on the Mediteranean.
The Nile is the worlds longest river.
Since the building of the Aswan Dam ,the Nile has finally been tamed.Making life along the Nile easier.
But since the stopping of the natural floods. The level of silt or "Black Gold" that was brought down from the mountains has dropped, making the land less rich.
Now the people of Egypt,most who live along the Nile no longer are subjected to the horrendous floods that occured along the Nile with frequent loss of home and family and livelihood.
This is a likely reason why the people of ancient Egypt had such a preoccupation with the process of life and death.
They lived within death ever present threat, in order to survive.
2007-03-08 19:52:52
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answered by sistablu...Maat 7
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SISTABLU IS BEATING US IN EVERY QUESTION, I PROPOSE OF GIVING HER THE EGYPTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
LOL.
GOOD WORK SISTABLU, AND HOPE TO MEET YOU IN EGYPT.
2007-03-12 09:09:53
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answered by abdelhamidelsayed 3
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