Egypt influenced a lot of cities, countries , and our society today, along the Nile River. Egypt could have affected cities by how they took advantage of the Nile River, so they other people near the Nile could have made their lives easier by following the Egyptians’ transportation, technology, and irrigation systems. These advances helped farmers be more successful, because they grew more crops from using irrigation systems.. Irrigation is the way of watering crops. They also used a shadoof, which is a bucket on a long pole, so that they could get water from the Nile, to the basins. Today, we still use trade, transportation, technology, and irrigation systems.