9.8 Chapter Summary
- Social Pyramid
- Social Classes
- Government Official
- Priest, scribes, artisans, peasants
- 3 seasons (of Nile)
- Famine- shortage of food
- Peasants build and grow crops
- Flooding, planting, harvest, seasons
9.4 Priest
9.3 Government Officials
- Vizier -A high ranking government official
- Alliance - An agreement between nations to work together for common interest
- General of armies
- Different kinds of preist
- Different kinds of jobs
- Music and dancing
- Religion
- Embalm-to treat a dead body with preservatives to prevent it from decaying.
- sarcophagus-a large stone coffin
- Hieroglyphs- a symbol used in the Egyptian system of writing.
- Census-an official count of the population or number of people living in an area.
- Scribes-Egypts official writers and record keepers.
- school
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Ancient Egypt's Social Pyramid
- Social classes
- Social pyramid
- 1600 to 1100 B.C.E.
- Government
1.Pharaohs
2.Government Officials
3.Preist
4.scribes
5.Artissians
6.peasents
- Different types of artisans
- Artisans-highly skilled laborers.
- Stone carvers (most skilled)
- Viewed as common laborers
Ch.9 Ancient Egypt Daily life