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life and economic systems in Pharaonic Egypt
Agriculture

Ancient Egyptians used tools such as: the ax, plow, sickle, Ashadov to deliver water to high ground.
Took care of peasants harvesting, agriculture and breeding of birds and animals.

farmer
Greek Herodotus said "Egypt is the gift of the Nile" and it is the key to Egypt would be an agricultural country, since ancient times, agriculture was the basis of the country's prosperity and wealth. Ancient Egyptians took control of the Nile River and high water through the standards, because it promises a good harvest. Interested in ancient Egyptians also good exploitation of the Nile water, and dug canals and channels, and built dams to reserve water and save the time of need.
Agricultural seasons
Section of ancient Egyptian agricultural year to the farm are three chapters:
Separation of immersion: the flood waters flooded agricultural land, and extends from mid-June to mid-October.
Separation of seed: the sowing of grain farmers, and runs from mid-October to mid-February.
Separation of harvest: from mid-February to mid-June.
And the land was cultivated once a year.
Crop months in Pharaonic Egypt
Ancient Egyptians planted wheat and barley for making bread, flax for the textile industry, and legumes: beans, lentils and chickpeas, Thermoses, and vegetables: onions, lettuce, and planted for the extraction of sesame oil, and fruit trees: grapes, pomegranates, Buckthorn, dates, figs and Doom and Sycamore.

Industry
Industries, the first stone and the oldest of Egyptian Industries, the manufacturing of pots and jars, weapons and coffins, as the marble used in the antiques industry.
Excelled in the ancient Egyptian pottery industry since the glass industry and the oldest of the sand.
He knew the importance of the ancient Egyptian leather, manufacture of footwear, belts and leather covers chairs, also used the skin of goats in the transfer of water and the conservation of liquid, as was the white leather used in the writing as well as papyrus.
He was able to make the ancient Egyptian tools, such as weapons, as used in making bronze statues of small, also making the ancient Egyptian jewelry of gold, silver and precious stones. All of these industries, confirm the availability of the makers of the taste of Egyptian art, the prowess, and the most beautiful of those industries and those found in the cemetery, "Tutankhamun safe," which still amaze the world today.
Ancient Egyptians imported cedar wood from the "Phoenician" (Lebanon), and from the ships and made the coffins and the family, chairs, ebony and imported from the Nuba and the country's "Pont" (Somalia), and from the royal palaces built furniture and houses of the princes.
And the ancient Egyptian used a lot of tools and saw Kalizmil, excelled in the art of woodcarving and jog ivory and ebony.
Egypt has succeeded in making his old linen. Also used in ancient Egyptian color trim.
Ancient Egyptians used the papyrus plant in the paper industry, thus making the first paper in the world, and made the legs of papyrus mats and baskets and ropes, boats and ships.
Internal Trade
  Boat ride in the Nile River - the mission of the profession in ancient Egypt, where the movement of the stones to build temples, and commercial goods, through the Nile River's main artery of the country. The funeral processions for the transfer of the mummy of Pharaoh to the place of burial is also moving across the river Nile.
Helped the River Nile and its branches on the popularity of domestic trade, with boats and ships which are carrying farmers and their crops between villages and cities,
Foreign Trade
Foreign trade flourished, and the ancient Egyptians called the country around them, and followed the Egyptian Commercial Fleet ships in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean carrying goods to Egypt's "Pont" (Somalia) and the "Phoenician" (Lebanon) and the Mediterranean Sea and the country's shift, and return laden with various goods and commodities. The Egyptian vessels carrying goods and commodities of Egyptian beans, paper Brdy, and jewelry, textiles and linen, and return laden with goods, such as cedar wood from the "Phoenician", and perfumes, ebony and ivory from the country, "Puntland", oil, wood and metal weapons from Syria and the Mediterranean.

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