Were not the French campaign on Egypt just a campaign of conventional military invasion and occupation, and it is obvious this group of scientists who had accompanied the campaign, and on this the work of Bonaparte to regulate matters of management and governance in Egypt on the pattern of what happened in France after the revolution in terms of the transfer of power to the middle class and they are objects in Egypt.
Napoleon creates Doaoyen the capital and regions, and General Board made up of elders and dignitaries, and the conditions of trading activities in the country. And alerted the idea Aldoaoyen Egyptians to the idea of participation in governance a substitute for the idea of rule of absolute tyranny.
In the field of agriculture, scientists studying the campaign the River Nile and check the channels and bridges, and planted new varieties of plants brought in from France, such as peaches and apricots and pears and apples, as the campaign focused on cultivation of rice, wheat and corn yields, and other traditional already in place.
In the field of justice, Napoleon conducted a change in the legal justice system, where the making of Egyptian scientists Atolonh by universal suffrage among themselves rather than judges senders Turks from Istanbul.
In the scientific field, Napoleon established the Egyptian Academy. And took to its membership campaign summary of scientists in different disciplines and that the style of the French Academy in Paris. And the purpose of the compound as determined by the Nablon is to provide knowledge and science in Egypt and study issues of natural, industrial, historical and scientific opinion of the government in matters being consulted them.
And the compound was able in a short period to evaluate the Arab press and other French and French women, creates two newspapers one political and other scientific economic.
Rosetta Stone is now in the British Museum in London
There are three important works by scholars of the campaign are:
Attempt canal linking the Mediterranean and the Red Bahrain. But the project stopped due to an error in the calculations of the level of Bahrain.
Huge collection of information about Egypt in various domains, and their publication in book Description of Egypt which is the first encyclopedia of Egypt at that time.
Found on the Rosetta Stone, which later enabled Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs and the consequent opening for studying the history of ancient Egypt.
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