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Egyptian Social Classes by Mike Liwag Per 1 (Women (Upper class women…
Egyptian Social Classes by Mike Liwag Per 1
Men
Heads of Househoulds
Supported family
Worked for support
Took care of Egyptian society
Artisans
Highly skilled laborers
Specialized in lots of crafts
Stone carvers
Produced statues
Engravings
Reliefs found on temples
Important role to tomb building
Daily life
Work on big workshops
Depended on food
Modest homes
Government Officials
Chief Treasure
Oversees Gov. wealth
Collects taxes
General Of the Armies
Advised pharaoh
Matters of war
National security
Make allliances
Opet Festival
Competed for honor
Vizier
Advised Pharaoh
Carried out commands
Chief judge
Lives of Luxury
Great wealth
Nice homes
Can socialize
Slaves
Prisoners of war
Mined
Quarried stone ,precious materials
Slaves of Royal Family
Held high regard
More eduacted
Peasants
Unskilled laborers
Grew crops
When not working
Helped Build monuments
Daily lives
Houses of mudbricks
Simple diet
Played river games
Took part in festivals
Worked in pairs
Scribes
Opet Festival
Written record of celebration
Education
Had to attend scribe schools
Mostly came from artisan and merchant classes
Not a easy life
Can last dawn-sunset
Work
Highly respected and paid
Wide variety of jobs
Recorded grain and food supply
All scribes use same tools
Pharaoh
Believed as Gods
Law was word
Called upon hundreds of artisans
Women
Allowed to be priestesses
Equal to Male Priests
Oversee temples
Devoted to music and dancing
Raised children
Upper class women
Slaves,servants to help
Lower class women
Worked themselves
More freedom
Can own land,buisnesses
Managed home
Priests
High Priests
Oversaw religious cerimonies
Advised pharaoh
Temple Priests
In charge of temples
Burial Practices
Method called embalming
Oversaw sacred ritual
Preserve bodies
Believe life after death
Opet Festival
Decorated statues
Other Priests
Handled common concerns