Monday, May 25, 2009

Agriculture in ancient Egypt


Egypt the gift of the Nile, the Nile water comes Veidah each year in the timing of known, Afeemr beaches and valleys that do not subside soon and have hung potbellied fat, which is what is known as one of the most fertile in the world of clay. Known to the ancient Egyptian agriculture stood on the banks of the Nile, where the conditions imposed by virtue of the valley, which beset the Egyptian desert to the hard life and the struggle to protect the land, drawn from the aggression of the Sahara and the protection of villages and agricultural land to establish the dams of the flood water and irrigation channels to extend the high land to them.

Flood season and the separation of the separation of sowing and harvesting. If the flood waters have receded and the land has emerged, and holds together Tinha, farmers began to cultivate it. The Egyptians were cultivating grain of wheat, barley, lentils, beans, chickpeas, peas and the arena is to summarize the vegetables, onions, garlic, balls, and Agaythae castor, flax was the division of fields into ponds and Breha Bahadov as well as work on the cultivation of many kinds of fruit trees and wood and under. Also known as the cultivation of fruits of all kinds of famous Sycamore, figs, grapes, olives, pomegranate, and the transfer to Egypt of different types of trees from Asia and Africa.

If the solution to the harvest season and the maturity of the planting of the farmers to harvest and reap the harvest of His Excellency to the sound of flute and singing. It had been accounted for and amounts of crops to manage the national economy and the provision of food for the Egyptian people throughout the year to cope with the decline in the Nile.


Has been used in ancient Egyptian agriculture many of the most important agricultural machinery and hand-hoe and a plow and the settlement of land and irrigation and the use of the tractor Ahadov channels and the construction of canals and dams established.

When the harvest and Use Alhurcrp too.

We have had a life of farming in the same Egyptian reverence to the gods of different Fbd "favor" the head of the Nile "and" AJ "head and green fruits and the gods goddess of the fields and the gods" Rnnot "Raboh grain silos and" Soccer "and" Min "for the production and abundance .






It was the sowing and harvesting seasons, seasons and holidays, a great king and participates in it.

Agriculture also had a role in the formation of ethics for the Egyptians, and the breach of these ethics is one of the major sins, which were foreign to the day of reckoning, when it is accompanied by the gods that it did not reduce the area of agricultural land was reserved for the water derived from agricultural land or the rights of neighbors of farmers.

Often, pictures of kings and they are themselves symbols of agriculture refers to the construction of canals or channels is the largest agricultural canal King "Snosart" era of the family III of the Second Central Ashrbaldolp linking the Nile to the Red Sea and the agricultural lands in addition to its aspects.

Not only work in the field only to men but women also participated side by side their husbands and members of the family as well as boys and girls special days of harvest. Agriculture was at the heart of the ancient Egyptian beliefs motivated by his belief in the Baath, and life once again in the same view as one of the elements of the universe, the sun and the moon and plant the Nile, as is their life cycles and life and death, it also Voiguen post-mortem will salute once again, but we find in his vision of the Commission in the World the other must be the god of planting fields Uzeir employer other world, which was confined to the righteous from the Egyptians, where they planted the fields, "Yarrow".

Of this, we find that agriculture in Egypt has played a key role in the formation of the Egyptian civilization, which is built on the stability in the Nile Valley and Egyptian linked to their land and the establishment of a great civilization based agriculture, which grew a spirit of association and affiliation with,

Fdaf by the presentation and defense of the honor, was retained for the length of time the main form of the continuous Egyptian civilization through the long period of time there has been only a few marginal changes and kept the spirit of Egyptian civilization has been an important occupation, there was a continuity of this civilization in all its forms Pharaonic Greek Romanian Islamic to date this.

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