Egypt also grew papyrus reeds, had good fishing, and hunted animals by the river banks. Mesopotamia on the other hand developed an irrigation system because their rivers were a little less predictable. Both civilizations knew how to take advantage and adapt to their natural resources. The way of life in these two locations shared some similarity but also some differences. Like government, they were both ruled by individuals, who had power and wealth and set themselves as “Kings”.
The Ancient Egyptians thought of Egypt as being divided into two types of land, the “black land” and the “red land. “ The “black land” was the fertile land on the banks of the Nile, and was mainly used as a growing land for their crops because of their deposition of rich, black silt every year after the Nile flood. The “red land” consisted of a barren desert and acted as natural barrier to protect Egypt from invasions by neighboring countries. Despite being a desert, it was a source of precious metals and semi-precious stones. The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to record and communicate information about the religion and government.
Foreign aid is always the same tradition of providing packaged food and water where as no further development in the country are made to provide better necessities. In “ Decision-making criteria and indicators for water and sanitation projects in developing countries” by Mariana Garfi. She explains the four main groups classified by the author is the importance of the whole water sanitation issues in order to address them. Water sanitation project involves many complex decisions to be made since not all villages have the same type of water source. In order to address this decisions, some factors such as low cost equipment/employees, resources used and water
Not only did they use the river for water and food, they also used the river for main transportation and trading goods. Although the Nile River flooded once a year which caused destructions, it provided them with a layer of silt that fertilized their soil that allowed them to farm all year round. The Egyptians welcomed these annual floods and showed their gratitude to the river god Osiris. They were connected with their religion especially through Osiris. The Nile river also supported in their early political unification between upper and lower Egypt.
The rulers devoted their time to the design and decoration of extensive funerary complexes, as well as the pyramids and subterranean tombs. The Egyptian funerary practices were from Osiris, and his belief in the continuity of life after death. The dead would a “last judgment” that consisted of two tests done by Osiris and supervised by the god, Anubis. The artists of Mesopotamia and Egypt helped create the symbolic visual language. They depended on the natural color of their materials from the earth to get the colors they wanted.
The A-frame acts as a fulcrum which allows the users strength to be maximized thus lifting a lot more water, then other conventional methods. The shaduf was used to allocate water from a well into buckets which were then used to water crops. Most of the farming in Egypt was done in an oasis called Fayum. Since the ground was saturated with water, farmers could build dikes or canals to move from the oasis out into the farm land to water their crops. Neither the shaduf, or irrigation ditches would have been used to great effect if it were not for the basic’s of geometry.
The Pyramids of Giza was built in 2570 BC which is 4578 years ago, by the ancient Egyptians. It’s located at Cairo, Egypt in Africa. The pyramid of Giza was 146.6m tall, because the top stone of the pyramid was stolen and erosion, the pyramid is now 138.8m tall. Each side of the pyramid was 231m long and covered 53000 square metres, and the pyramid also has a slope of 51°. The pyramid is also the tallest man made structure for over 3800 years, and was later surpassed by Lincoln cathedral.
This would, in turn, provide more land for farmers and help to eradicate their poverty issues. The Dam itself was built between Asyut and Abu Simbel, more towards the southern part of Egypt. While the Dam was intended to do nothing but benefit Egypt and its economy, it didn’t come without implications and negative effects. To build the Dam, many houses and residences had to be relocated and many people had to leave their homes. There were also old Egyptian structures that had to be carefully moved to avoid destruction from the new path of the river.
Papyrus is a type of plant that grows in the marshes in the Nile (Chrisp 21). The Egyptians took the inner core of the papyrus plant and made it into a sheet of paper (Chrisp21). Their pens were made from reeds, and the ink that they used was soot or charcoal mixed with gum (Chrisp 21). Jean Francois Champolion was the one who deciphered the Hieroglyphs in the Ancient Egyptian times (Agnese 34). Religion was very important to the Ancient Egyptians, and had a lot of influence on their daily life (“Religion”).
Yolanda Holman February 17, 2014 English 112 Mr. R. Lang Why isn’t water free? In the world that we live there are many different natural resources that accompany us in everyday life. Most of these resources we need to live on a daily basis. First there is the air that we breathe that keeps us functioning, then there’s the food, such as plants, fruits and vegetables that we use to eat and lastly, there’s water which happens to be a very important natural resource that we use for drinking, bathing, cooking and cleaning. Out the all the water on Earth only 3 percent is fresh water and the other 97 percent is salt water.