- Slaves/servants helped the wealthy with household & child raising duties
- farmers raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Nile
- Artisans would carve statues & reliefs showing military battles & scenes in the after life.
- Money/ barter system was used - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment - later coinage came about.
- Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy & medical treatments
- They wrote in hieroglyphs & in hieratic
- Soldiers used wooden weapons (bows, arrows, and spears) with bronze tips & might ride chariots
- Upper class known as the "white kilt class" - priests, physicians engineers.
Pharaohs
- the political & religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High priest of Every Temple"
- As the "Lord of the Two Lands" the pharaoh was the ruler of Upper & Lower Egypt
- He owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, defended Egypt against foreigners
- Hatshepsut was a women who served as pharaoh
- Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later (51 - 30 B.C) more on her when we study Greece
- over 2,000 Gods & Goddesses
- they "controlled" the lives of humans
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