- slave/servents helped the weathy with household childraising duties
- reaised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Nile
- artisans would carve statues and relifes showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
- 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 and medical treatments
- they wrote in hieroglyphs and hieratic
- soldiers used wooden weapons (bows&arros, spears) w/bronze tips and might ride chariots
- upper class, known as the "white kilt class" - priest, physicians, engineers
Pharaohs
- the political and religous leader of Egypitain people, holding the titles: 'Lord of the Two Lands' and 'High Priest of Every Temple'
- as 'Lord of the Two Lands' the pharaoh was the ruler of the upper and lower Egypt. He owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, & defended Egypt against foreigners
- Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh
- Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh but much later (51 - 30 BC) more on her when we study Greece
- over 2000 gods &goddesses
- they "controlled" the lives of humans
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