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To begin with, people have to eat, so agriculture was important in all ancient and later societies.

In Egypt, the quantity of agricultural output was completely determined by the yearly floodings of the river Nile which left a layer of fertile silt on de fields bordering the river. The religious rites in which the gods were asked for a 'good' flooding were amongst the most important rites of the religious calendar in which the Pharaoh (himself a god) always participated.

The reason that the floodings were so important were that then as now, Egypt was one big desert except for the narrow strips of land bordering on the Nile left and right. If the Nile flooding for some reason did not occur, it meant famine in Egypt for that year.

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