Daily Life Essay:

Daily Life: Pharaoh, Government officials, Soldiers, Scribes, Merchants, Artisans, Farmers, Slaves and Servants. Slave/servants helped the wealthy with household and child rising duties.

Raised wheat, barley, lentils onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Nile

Artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife

Money/Barter system was used- merchants might accept bags of grain for payment-later, coinage came out. Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments. They were hieroglyphs and in hieratic. Soldiers used wooden weapons (bows and arrows and spears) w/ bronze tips.

 

Upper class, known as the "white kilt class" - priests, physicians, engineers. Religious and political leader. Pharaohs: The political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the little "Lord of the two lands." Owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defeated against Egyptian Foreigners.

 

Hatshepsut was a women who served as a pharaoh. Some had a strap on beard if they choose not to actually grow one. Cleopatra VII also served as a pharaoh, but was much later (51-30BC) more on when we study Greece. Goddesses and Gods, Over 2000 Gods and Goddesses. They "controlled" the lives of humans