Cyber Day Post

Daily Life:

• Slaves/ servants 

• helped the wealthy with household and child raising duties
• raised wheat, barely, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigation of the Nile

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

• Merchants
• money barter system was used 
• might accept bags of grain for payment
• later, coinage came about 

• Scribes
• kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, and described anatomy and medical treatments
• wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic 

• Soldiers 
• used wooden weapons (bow and arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots 

• Priests, Physicians, and Engineers 
• upper class
• known as "white kilt class"

• Religious and Political Leaders - Pharaoh
• leader of the Egyptian People 
• holding titles: "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priest of Every Temple" 
• As "Lord of the Two Lands" the pharaoh was the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt; he owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners
• Hatshepsut was a woman who served as Pharaoh
• Cleopatra VII also served as Pharaoh , but much later (51 - 30BC) 

• Gods and Goddesses 
• over 200 gods and goddesses
• they "controlled" the lives of humans