1. One of the most important discoveries the Egyptians came up with was how they developed a system based off of the constellations. This invention is important because from this they made sundials, two calendars, and they built some of the pyramids in align with certain stars. During the day with their sundials they would divide the day into 24 hours and the night sky into 36 star groups. They had two calendars a regular one and then a 360 day ceremonial schedule. The temples would be in align with stars and in a southern direction and faced towards the star Sirius. This was very important because Egyptians started to advance in society and understand the universe we live in. It improved life for the Egyptians a lot because they started to advance as a society and move forward in life and discover new things that helped us to get where we are today in society.
2. Another technological discovery the Egyptians came up with was a mathematical system. The Egyptians are responsible for the shapes of mathematics we have today and most of the stuff the Egyptians did got got passed down to the Greeks. They had a good understanding of math and used it in building the pyramids, surveying, making a calendar, administration, accounting, and to solve world problems more than discovering new things. This was important because they used this to become more advance. Since they could now figure out area and volume of certain areas they could advance even further. The Egyptians started something huge that would lead onto even bigger discoveries. This discovery with math really helped to improve the Egyptians by helping out the Pharaoh, now since they could find out area and etc. the Pharaoh could give everybody a piece of land (which he did) and then he could decide how much he would tax them on it.
3. An important invention the Egyptians came up was being able to control/irrigate the Nile River. This river would flood every July and the river would destroy their homes and crops and they needed a way to stop it. The Egyptians came up with the idea to divert the Nile River, by doing that the river was able to go to different regions and and the river would no longer flood their homes. This is important because now the Egyptians could in a way control the Nile River and prevent it from flooding their homes. This helped the Egyptians by they could now take more from using the Nile River and they no longer had to worry about their homes or crops getting destroyed by the flood.
4. Another good invention the Egyptians came up with was medicine. Egyptians would write on papyrus what they would discover about the human body such as the heart, pulse, and etc. Part of the Egyptians discovery was that when they felt the heart and if they felt that it was beating slowly or something then they would decide that the patient had a problem. An interesting thing about the Egyptians with practicing medicine was that they believed the supernatural was the cause of people getting sick. The Egyptians coming up with some of the first doctors and getting started with medicine is important because this was again another advance in society, now we can start to learn about our bodies and cure people from diseases. This helped to improve the Egyptians by they started to become doctors and treat people from their diseases and diagnose people. This also helped us to get where we are today with medicine.
5. Soon Egypt decided that it was time to start educating young Egyptian boys. They did this because Egypt needed more educated men to help run society. You'll notice how they did not decide to educate the women which shows that women are seen lower than the men at that time. After they started to educate the boys Egypt started to see more men in higher positions on the hierarchy. In the New Kingdom era, you could not move up on the hierarchy but by them teaching and the new Egyptian era things were changing in the community. This is important because the Egyptian community was starting to change and develop even further and they were advancing even more. This helped the Egyptians by that the men could have better lives and the Egyptians started to become educated, high class people who were running a fast advancing society.
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