Legacy of the Nile Floods

7月 6, 2010 · Posted in 未分類 

To the Nile floods of Pharoah times modern civilisation owes the beginning of engineering, surveying, mathematics and other sciences, developed by the Egyptians in order to find their lands again after the floods had obliterated all landmarks. Farther east the Babylonians learned to control the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers by means of canals and ditches. Still farther east and at about the same time-some four thousand years before Christ-a Chinese engineer was elevated to the emperor’s throne because he was able to control a flood and save the land from the sea.

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