My family and I keep the records of my ancestors in a gold chest that we keep in our living room. The book is made out of leather and cloth, massive, and brown, with a thick brown buckle securing the pages from getting loose. On the inside the pages are brown and thin, with black led writing and has five chapters. The writing is a mix between Hieroglyphics and Coptic. That’s the reason I’m fluent in Coptic and can read and write in that language. The first chapter of the book consists of information about the many resources Egypt endured and what merchants traded.

The beginning of the first chapter lists some of the three most important resources that allowed Egypt to be prosperous. The first resource is the famous Nile River. The Nile is the longest river in the world that benefited the people of Ancient Egypt daily. The Nile River had many purposes such as transportation, food, cropping, and chores. The Nile allowed people to travel and trade goods with one another to make money. The Nile also provided food like fish and also was a method of cropping plants and other types of food along the river. People would crop around the river because the river made the soil fertile. Last, people bathed and washed their clothes in the river. Without the Nile River Egypt wouldn’t have been successful. The second most important resource is the desert. The desert provides many natural resources like copper, granite, sandstone, limestone, and more, but most importantly gold. The last important resource that also came from the desert was oil. Oil was mainly produced in The Western Desert and Gulf of Suez. Oil served a significant purpose because it was used for trading, medicine, and was apart of religious practices.

The middle of the chapter explains the technology and inventions that were designed in Ancient Egypt. The top three inventions that impacted society and life today were mathematics, writing/paper, and cropping tools. Egyptians were mathematicians; they founded the idea of the decimal system and complex math like geometry. The invention of mathematics impacted the construction of pyramids, clocks, and the 365-day calendar that is still used today. The second invention, writing, was very important because Egyptians were able to write their language out and tell stories through art. The final inventions are cropping tools. Like mentioned before The Nile River was a major resource for Egypt, so they designed irrigation systems using the creation of levers, plows, and ramps. This made cropping easier when the river flooded and helped people from traveling long distances to the Nile, each time they needed water.

The end of the chapter expresses how my ancestors were grateful they lived in a prominent place that had access to several resources. Therefore, the ending of the chapter briefly describes the type of products merchants would trade amongst one another. The products that were being traded were paper, gold, and jewelry. Egyptian merchants often traded with people from Anatolia, China, and the Gulf Arab countries.