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Diversion dam — The first Diversion dam is Sadd el-Kafara Dam built in Egypt around 2700 B.C. [19]; Noria — Norias appeared in Egypt in the 4th Century B.C. [20]; Beekeeping — domesticated Beekeeping was first recorded in ancient Egypt around 2600 B.C. [21] [22] as well as the first use of smoke while extracting the honey from bee nests.
First Intermediate Period of Egypt – This period is often described as a “dark period” in Ancient Egyptian history, spanning approximately 140 years after the end of the Old Kingdom from ca. 2181–2055 BCE. [5] It included: The possibly spurious Seventh Dynasty of Egypt; The Eighth Dynasty of Egypt; The Ninth Dynasty of Egypt
Intel BASEF is intended for children in grades 9–12 from Alexandria and the neighboring governorates to compete with each team. The winning projects, one team project and two individual projects, represent Egypt in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) that takes place in the United States.
Egypt is considered to be a regional power in the Middle East, North Africa and the Muslim world, and a middle power worldwide. It is a developing country. Egypt is a founding member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the African Union, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, World Youth Forum, and a member of BRICS.
Before technology advanced, the people of Egypt relied on the natural flow of the Nile River to tend to the crops. Although the Nile provided sufficient watering for the survival of domesticated animals, crops, and the people of Egypt, there were times where the Nile would flood the area wreaking havoc across the land. [64]
The ancient Egyptian military was responsible for defending Egypt against foreign invasion, and for maintaining Egypt's domination in the ancient Near East. The military protected mining expeditions to the Sinai during the Old Kingdom and fought civil wars during the First and Second Intermediate Periods.
The history of ancient Egypt spans the period from the early prehistoric settlements of the northern Nile valley to the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. The pharaonic period, the period in which Egypt was ruled by a pharaoh, is dated from the 32nd century BC, when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified, until the country fell under Macedonian rule in 332 BC.
He was the third chief librarian of the Great Library of Alexandria, the center of science and learning in the ancient world, and died in the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt. Euclid of Alexandria: Mathematician: Ptolemaic (fl. c. late 4th century BC) Greek mathematician, known as the "Father of Geometry".