Cyber Day 1

Essay #1: Describe the social hierarchy of ancient Egypt. 

The hierarchy of ancient Egypt is our modern day Monarchy. At the top was the Pharaoh and at the bottom were the servants. The hierarchy is broken down into eight different types of people.

1.     Pharaohs

2.     Government Officials

3.     Soldiers

4.     Scribes

5.     Merchants

6.     Artisans

7.     Farmers

8.     Slaves and Servants

Slaves and servants were the most populated people and as you went up in the classes, it got less numerous. Slaves and servants did not have a terrible life, nothing like how they were treated in America. They would help the wealthy households and be the modern day nannies or maids. Going in population order, next are the farmers, who haven’t changed over the thousands of years. In ancient Egypt, they would farm wheat, barley, lentils and onions. Then came artisans, they would carve statues that would show military battles and the afterlife. After them were the merchants, your modern day banker. Ancient Egypt had a money system that was used, they could accept bags of grain as payment, and later a coinage came along. Next were scribes, who kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, and described anatomy and medical treatments.

For soldiers, government officials and pharaohs, they were known as the “white kilt class” because they were very clean and could afford to have “bright white” clothes. Soldiers used wooden weapons with bronze tips. Government officials included priests, physicians, engineers, etc. Finally, pharaohs, these people were the kings and queens of Egypt. They owned all the land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt from foreign areas. There were well over two thousand pharaohs over ancient Egypt’s time, and only about ten of them, at most, were women.

 

Essay #2: Discuss the importance of the Nile River to the Egyptians.          

The Nile River is a river in northeastern Africa, it is 4132 miles long and dispenses into the Mediterranean Sea. The Egyptians surrounded their life around the river, because of everything that it brought, people lived a few miles from it at most. The Nile brought drinking and bathing water, irrigation, technological breakthroughs, and transportation. The river flooded every July and left behind a rich soil, which was good for farming. In the end, the Nile river provided Egyptians with the track to survival.