Ancient Egypt Achievements

Egyptians were highly skilled at many tasks. Their achievements laid out a foundation for many advances throughout history. The Ancient Egyptians made many important contributions in fields of agriculture and architecture by making an irrigation system from the water source from the Nile, the pyramids and temples, and their skills in math being improved because of the unpredictable floods from the Nile. One of the greatest achievements of the ancient Egyptians was the advancement of the irrigation system. Irrigation is the watering of dry land with the use of man-made streams, canals, or pipes. If the irrigation system were never made in Egypt, the civilization would not have been able to survive the arid desert conditions for long. The Early Egyptians dug out basins, or bowl-shaped holes, to catch the deluge of the annual Nile flood. A device called a shadoof was used to lift the water from the Nile to basins and stored water until the dry months. They released water into canals to let it progress to crops or other barren areas. When land is irrigated it means more land for cattle to graze and crops to grow.
The process of building a pyramid required workers to use copper tools to cut huge blocks of granite and the limestone. Pyramids were extremely important to the Egyptians because they believed that after death, the soul comes back to the body. Subsequently, the conserved the dead body of the Pharaoh by administering chemicals in it, a process called mummification. The Egyptians were so skilled at stonecutting that most of the stones they cut fit exactly together. Another architectural achievement was the temples. The Pharaohs built them in order to please the gods and goddesses. The Karnak temple at Thebes is the largest temple of Egypt and meant for the worship of Amon-Ra or the sun