General Questions:

● Describe the social classes that exist in the

society and the role each group played.

Nobles: related to pharaoh

● Ruled the regions of Egypt.

● Responsible or making local laws & keeping order in their

regions.

https://historylink101.com/n/egypt_1/a-nobles.htm

Priest:
● Responsible for keeping the God’s happy.

● Spent time performing rituals & ceremonies to the God

of their temple.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1026/clergy-priests--

priestesses-in-ancient-egypt/

High Priest:
● Mediator between the people and their gods.

● Overall charge of temple finance ans adminisration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_priest
 ● Chief priest of any of the many gods revered by the

Egyptians.

Slaves:
● Big part of labor force.

● Used for many other purposes such as…

1. House servants 2. Farm labor

3. Gardeners 4. Musicians & Dancers

https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub404/entry-6151.html

Craftsmen:
● Usually trained and stalled

● Works in workshops w/ other craftsmen

● Sculptures

https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-egyptian-

craftsmen.html

Farmers:
 ● The Pharaoh got the rich peasants to do the farm work

on the rich lands.

● Grow stable food crops.

● Grains such as wheat and barley.

● Industrial crops, such asflax and papyrus.

● Collected seed, to plant the following year

● Stored grain in large silos

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/egypt/farming.htm

Scribes:
● writes letters - fellow villagers who can’t write.

● Records the amount of crops harvest

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/explore/scribe.h

tml

Engineers:
❖ Had excellent knowledge of geometry & measurement.

● Built many temples and other buildings.

● The Egyptian pyramids at Giza.

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/explore/scribe.html

Doctors:
● Combine magic spells w/ remedies.

FACT: both doctors and priest were called upon to heal

sickness/illness putting together their skills and powers

to fix the isshue.

https://www.worldhistory.org/Egyptian_Medicine/

Vizier:
● Superwise the running of the country.

● Returned Egyptian religion to its familiar gods after

the failed experiment of Akhenation.

FACT: appointed by the pharaohs an often belong to a

Pharaoh’s family.

https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-vizier.html

The Pharaoh:
 ● Laws

● Waged war

● Collected taxes

● Oversaw all land (owned by Pharaoh).

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pharaoh/home.html

WHAT ROLE DID WOMEN PLAY IN YOUR CIVILIZATION?

Woman’s role as mother and wife still did come first in Egyptian
society. Some professions in which women worked including…
● Weaving
● Perfume making
● Entertainment

WHAT INVENTIONS CAME OUT OF YOUR CIVILIZATION? - top important.

● Bowling
● Paper and Ink
● Make-up and wigs
● Barbers
● Calendar and time keeping
● Furniture
● toothpaste , breath mints.
● Police

WHAT WAS DAILY LIFE LIKE IN YOUR CIVILIZATION?

 ● Built mud brick in villages and in the country.
● Grew some of their own foods.
● Traded in the villages for the goods they couldn’t produce.
● Linen cloth was typically white and seldom dyed another
color.

➔ Choose one element from your general research and go

deeper. You can look at a specific invention, famous, or
element in their daily life.

- Four (4) elements

● The body
● Spirit
● Personality
● Name
● Shadow

If I were to pick which out of the 4 I would choose from, it would

be the body.
I think this because by preserving the body, Egyptians believe
that...
● could keep the other rest of the elements alive and going.
● If the body did decompose, the person would stay dead
forever.
 - Also was one of the elements out of the four that
became necessary for transforming the deceased
into an effective spirit, who would live in on its
afterlife.

TWO SOURCES:
- https://www.arce.org/resource/development-egyptian-

coffin#:~:text=A%20central%20priority%20of

%20ancient,live%20on%20in%20the%20afterlife.

- https://www.factmonster.com/history/ancient/dk-history-

ancient-egypt