The Historical Musings

            Hey there! Welcome back to The Historical Musings. Today we will be moving into part two of ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt part one was about how nomads turned into farmers and the Fertile Crescent(to learn more click here ). Now, we will talk about a brand new invention that the ancient Egyptians made and the very first towns. The Irrigation System         First, we must talk about what irrigation even means. Irrigation means a supply of water that goes into land or crops to help grow.  The early farmers had started to make fields of grain for them to harvest. The problem was that the fields needed a lot of water for them to flourish. The land near the rivers was damp enough to do the job but farther away the land was dry for most of the year. So what the farmers did was they learned how to dig canals from the rivers and out into their crops. These canals could reach land however far and dry they were . This irr...

        Hi, Welcome Back! Now that we have gone over the dating system(if you haven't read that post click here )we can move on to the beginnings of Ancient Egypt. So let's get started!  The Nomads of Ancient Egypt           Way before ancient Egypt became a unified and powerful nation, small groups of nomads dominated the area. What are nomads?  Nomads are people who don't live in the same place for long periods of time. There are 3 types of them. Hunter-gatherers, who move from place to place hunting and fishing animals and foraging wild vegetation, pastoral nomads, who live off of domesticated animals and usually try to live near fresh pastures to feed those animals, and trader nomads, who went around trading resources with others. All these people never lived in one place for too long, kept low populations, and didn't own many things. At the beginning of Ancient Egypt, hunter-gatherers were the most prominent type of nomad ...

            Welcome Back! Hopefully, you have already read my Introduction post on this Blog. If not, I strongly suggest reading that and then coming back to this one. With that being said, let's begin our topic for the day!     Before we start actually learning about history, we must understand what the dates of important events in history mean. When you're in school reading those big historic textbooks(I know we all love them so much) you probably saw a number like 389 or 73 and after it is two or three letters like A.D or B.C.E so the full date would look like 79 A.D or 645 B.C. Today, I will talk about what these terms mean and how they came to be. How The System Came to Be      Before the B.C/A.D system was invented, the system that was in use was called the   Diocletian System . I t was a Roman calendar and  named after the 51st Roman emperor. However, in the Easter Tables(for more information on them scroll t...

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