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Why did the Egyptians need to measure land?

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the ancient Egyptians developed advanced surveying systems because every year their boundary stones were washed away by the flooding of the Nile. the boundaries
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This way they could have a rough estimate of how much space pyramids, statues and many more big buildings they could cover the area with.
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