Friday, February 13, 2015

15/01/12

Daily life

  • Pharaoh - the political religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: 'lord of the Two Lands' and High Priest of Every Temple 
  • Government official Nobles Priests
  • Soldiers- used wooden weapons(bow&arrows, spears)w/bronze tips and might ride chariots
  • Scribes -  kept record, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy, and medical treatments
  • Merchants - use money/barter system - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment - later coinage came about
  • Artisans - would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife 
  • Farmers - raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benitted from irrigationof the Nile
  • Slaves and Servants - help the wealthy with household and ehildraisisg duties  
  • Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh
  • cleopatra VII also served as pharao, but much later(51 -30B.C) more on her when we study Greece 
Goddesses and God
  • over 2000 goddesses and god 
  • they "controlled" the lives of human  

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