Ancient Egypt's Farming System

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Ancient Egypt’s farming system compared with Mesopotamia
Ancient Egyptians had an easier life compared to the other ancient civilizations because of their reliable agriculture system. Geography played a big role, especially in farming. Due to geography, Mesopotamia and Egypt had different farming methods, weathers, environment, and flooding seasons. In fact, Egypt’s great farming system led them to have better conditions to farm than Mesopotamia because of flooding, the rivers and irrigation and the farming tools that they used. Economy, crops, flooding, and the weather varied between Mesopotamia and Egypt. Geography, flooding seasons, different farming tools, and methods led Egypt to have a better agriculture system than Egypt.
The difference between geographies, which includes the environment, was the main factor that the farming was different in Mesopotamians and Egyptians. Flooding influenced farming in Mesopotamia and Egypt. However, flooding helped Egypt but it influenced badly in Mesopotamia (Grigg, p22). Egypt is settled on the world’s longest river, the Nile, which flows from south to north because of the geography of land. Unlike Mesopotamia, Egypt had a predictable flooding seasons. Farmers, knowing when to expect floods, were able to schedule growing seasons around when crops needed water (Gill, p28). Not only did flooding help with good timing with farming, but it also provided rich soil from the flooding. The Nile River floods between June and October. After floods, there would be a fertile land along the river which Egyptians used to plant and grow things such as fruits and vegetables (Gill, p29). Flood played a big role in farming and growing crops in Egypt.
On the contrary, growing crops were more difficult for M...

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