Agriculture was overwhelmingly the activity, the most important activity of the people of that area, of any area.

绝大多数经济活动是农业活动,农业对该地区,甚至任何地区的人民来说,都是最重要的活动

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If you look at the percent of time people in society were involved in various activities and broken into agriculture versus everything else, in ancient Egypt it looked like this.

如果你留意一下,人们从事各种社会活动的时间比例,被分为农业生产和其他活动两类,在古埃及,时间分配是这样的

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