Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

• Social Pyramid
• Farms vs. cities
• Daily life

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A Pyramid Even a Pharaoh Helped Build

• Rank of Egyptians
• Rank what did for a living
• Nubians (soldiers craftworkers),
• Syrians (government officials craftworkers)
• Slavery Nubians and Syrians
• Did hardest work, but had rights

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Pharaoh
Government Officials
Soldiers
Scribes
Merchants
Artisans
Farmers
Slaves
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Farmers
Cities

• Produced most goods people needed
• Planted and Harvested crops AND build things for
  pharaohs
• Not much free time

• Craftworkers and artists
• Lived in crowded neighborhoods
• Board games free time

• Worked long hours for few rewards
• Celebrated holidays and played games

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OH, to be Young Again...

• Children played games and had pets
• Amount of play time depended on what parents did
  for a living
• Children followed in their parents footsteps

Egyptian Siga
Senet
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What's the Big Idea???

• Although Egypt was a mighty empire, ordinary
  people still continued to do ordinary things
• Enslaved Syrians and Nubians helped support the
  Egyptian society
• Farmers worked on farms owned by powerful
  families while city and town dwellers crafted
  goods and lived in crowded conditions
• Pharoahs reign challenged by armies from the
  west
• 1100 B.C. united kingdom collapsed ending the
  New Kingdom and one of the richest civilizations
  in history
• Egyptian legacy lives on