Wealth: Egypt was a very wealthy country with powerful rulers, internatiional trade, large cities and it was one of the most advanced cicilisations the world had ever known. Their wealth was based on the River Nile, and when the river flooded every year the land became fertile which gave rich harvests of crops. All the wealth meant there was big improvements in medicine.
Specialist doctors: The rich employed people to look after them and they had their own physcians. The doctors had spent most of their lives improving their knowledge of medicine and health.
Metal workers: Rich egyptians employed metal workers to make fine bronze instruments that their doctors used.
Trade: Egypt traded with countries such as India, China and Africa and this brang in new herbs and plants which were recommened as medicines so Egyptian healers built up a better knowledge of herbal medicines.
Improved Writing: The Egyptians developed a form of paper from reeds called papyrus, and a simpler way of writing - hierogylphics. This made it easier to pass on treatments and remedies to other healers.
Religion: Mummification improved knowledege of the anatomy of the human body as Egyptians believed in life afte death so thet embalmed their body ready for the afterlife.
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