Agriculture

Agriculture - Egypt
Each year from mid-July to october the Nile river flooded which made life possible there because crops could grow and that is where the Egyptian Civilization started. People could and usually planted Barley and wheat to make bread, beer and Flax. Flax was used to make linen and clothes. People tried to have irrigation systems to take advantage of the floods. Grain was very important in Egypt, because it was often traded for other goods. Even if Egypt was a wealthy country a lot of people were farmers and workers. One of the Advantages they had was that they used the Nile Delta to water plants, people also grew a lot of Grapes to make wine as well. 90 percent of the Farming in Egypt was concentrated along the Nile Delta.

Most Rich people had their servants farm for them and then gained something out of it but the farmer/servant gained nothing. Egyptians also grew crops along the Kemet which was the leftovers of water after the Nile flooded every year, and both fertile soils were very good to grow healthy crops (Nile and kemet). At that time Farmers divided their years in 3: These are how the Farmers years were divided. Ancient Egyptian tried to preserve as much water as possible so that they could water the Plants after the flood, so that they dont have to get it all the time. Animals were very important to Egyptian farmers, and to their business, because they could sell some animals and keep some to produce milk, then Cheese ect. They mainly kept those animals : Cattle's were also very important, Egyptian farmers that had cattle's counted them because they then had to tell the mayor who recorded it under the Tax records. They mainly kept these Animals because they produced what they mostly sold and traded. Rich people could afford having big fields to farm but others that weren't Rich couldn'tt because the bigger the fields you owned the more Tax needed to be payed. Some people that weren't as rich managed to have big fields too sometimes because if they produced enough goods (I already mentioned this but..) they could use the goods as money (trade) and pay like that. The Fiber from Flax was used to make Papyrus, and scrolls (that were also made out of Papyrus).
 * 1) Akhet: The season when the Nile flooded, at that time of the year Farmers worked for the Pharaohs and didn't farm because of the enormous mounts of water that made the Nile a place where crops couldn't be grown until the water had made the land Fertile
 * 2) Peret: The season were most Crops were produced. This season was also known as the growing season.
 * 3) Shemu: The harvesting season, when crops were cut and removed before the Nile flooded again. They also repaired the canals to reduce the damage inflicted by the floods.
 * 1) Shemu: The harvesting season, when crops were cut and removed before the Nile flooded again. They also repaired the canals to reduce the damage inflicted by the floods.
 * Cattle
 * Goats
 * Pigs
 * Ducks
 * Cows
 * Geese

Also the Farmers weren't the only ones to collect the goods off their terrains, the whole population of Egypt took part of the Harvesting season mainly to make sure that the Crops weren't in the fields and then drowned by the flood caused by Nile.

The main problem that Egypt had was that the Banks of the Nile were the only good places to farm in Egypt because the rest of the Country was just a plain desert with villages and towns, but the Deserts were only bad for farming because Bulls, Oryx (a type of Antelope), Antelopes and lions, as for Fish the Nile was full of them.

Agriculture - China
At the very beginning of the Chinese Civilization they didn't farm they had to eat reptiles, They farmed a bit less than other Civilization but once they had started they farmed a lot. Shen Nong Shi also known as the Red Emperor or the Yan Emperor of China was an Ancient Chinese Legend and supposingly for China became true. The Legend concerned the origins of Agriculture in China, it was before this legend that people ate Reptiles. Some people tasted every single herb they thought of to see if it could be used as food. They did that because the Legend of Shen nong Shi said that Shen Nong Shi also did that. Later Farming tools were invented and spread all across China from east to west and south to north in other words everywhere.

Different Agricultural sites found across America and Asia may prove that the Main centers of agriculture were there.(further information in conclusion). China had an advantage that they were probably the only one to have. they had a unimaginable population that population is nowadays over 1 billion people and because many people farmed they produced more goods than some other civilizations.

China was still and still is a developping country and they didn't have anything to protect their goods from getting damaged also the Government sometimes influenced the Farmers in a bad way which made them grow their crops differently and they didn't grow crops that were as Good as the crops they grew before. Later they developped techniques to store the Moisture we know that as a Crop-Fallow Rotation. The Developpement of Ancient Chinese Agriculture is divided in 6 sections.

These Sections are:

A stage where Chinese Agriculture wasn't very developped. 2. Primary Stage 3. The third stage came duringthe Warring state Period, Spring and Automn but has not been given a specific name. 4. Period of Han and Qi Dynasty 5. Period of Sui, Tang, Song until the Yuan Dynasty 6. The Advanced stage when agriculture was very intense These are the 6 stages of the Agricultural period today it is different but Agriculture still exists in China. Since the republic of China begun the Chinese farmers have massively advanced in theri farming techniques.
 * 1) Rudimentary Stage :

Conclusion
I believe that China was not as good as Egypt in the domain of Agriculture but I still think that China was good in the Domain of Agriculture. There is a considerable amount of reasons though to explain why I think Egypt was better than China in Agriculture. Egypt had the advantage of starting Agriculture as soon as their Civilization started which gave them more experience than China but in some ways China managed to survive without farming which wasn't bad at all because the Chinese population could still eat reptiles and farm as well which is what they did that gave them an advantage too but in the end they messed up their farming ways and their crops were not good anymore. However Egypt was attacked many times and their crops were ruined to but they continued to have crops that were good to eat. Egypt had fertile land too that was used from the beggining. Overall I think that Egyptian agriculture was better than Chinese agriculture mainly because of the change of technique to farm in China.