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Beckett Miller
Miss. Nicoll
The development in new and improved agricultural techniques created the production of
All of the techniques I am including need water as they are an irrigation technique. The
nile's regular flooding let the egyptians predict when to trap the water. As Joshua A. Mark said,
“The yearly inundation of the Nile was essential to Egyptian life, but irrigation canals were
necessary to carry water to outlying farms and villages as well as to maintain even saturation of
crops near the river” . By digging ditches, they were able to catch the water for the crops. The
Shaduf helped bring the water up and out of the holes. This was an early pulley like system. The
water was then poured into irrigation waterways/canals to water the plants. The canals flowed
through fields of plants watering plants automatically. The Egyptians used many helpful
The new techniques produced more food than what was needed. This means that the new
techniques “could also support a larger amount of people” (Alessi). This meant that there was
food for more than just the farmer. If people could share food they could become a stronger
community. Some people could work on farming while others grew food. Then, the trader could
work on making more food easier and the farmer could feed the other person. This is called an
economic surplus.
A powerful city has people working on everything, not just farming. Power and
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community can support a greater population easily. Egypt was able to have people working on
statues and still have food. This led to a successful economy. Egypt was a powerful community
because they could use irrigation. All in all, without those techniques egypt would not be as good
as it could be.
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Works Cited
http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp363-ss13/2013/02/27/the-nessesity-of-a-surplus-to-complex-
societies/.
agriculture/.