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The Old Kingdom (The Social Structure (Farmers or people who worked on the…
The Old Kingdom
The Social Structure
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Lesser government officials, scribes, craftspeople, and merchants
Priests, key government officials, and nobles or people from rich and powerful families.
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Egypt and its Neighbors
From Nubia they got gold, ivory, and stone.
From Punt, an area on the Red Sea, they got myrrh.
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For example Sumerian designs were in Egyptian art and the pottery from Egypt is similar to Nubia's designs.
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The Gods of Egypt
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They built temples all around the kingdom and recieved payments from the government and from the worshipers.
In the Old Kingdom everybody was supposed to worship the same gods but depending on which region they lived in.
Some of the gods included, Ptah, Re or Amon-Re, Osiris, Isis, and Horus.
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Burial Practices
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It was a complex, long, and included taking the vital origins out of the body and storing them in jars. After all of that was done they wrapped the body in cloth.
They preserved the body so that the ka could reconize the body and recieve the food and other nesesities used in the afterlife. If the body decayed the link would be broken.
Finally, the body was paced in a coffin and relatives wrote spells to help the ka receive its necessities.
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Only the rich could pay for this. But the poor still could have their bodies preserved because they buried them in the desert where the hot dry weather preserved them naturally.
The Pyramids
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For the important people, such as pharaohs, they built pyramids, huge triangular prism shaped, stone structures.
They did this because they thought that their pharaoh was their only link to the gods so they believed that ensuring their happiness in the afterlife would ensure the happiness of all the people in the afterlife.
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Rule by pharaohs
To help them with these duties they hired government officials.Most of them came from their families.
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But since he was considered a god the people blamed him for when crops were scarce and there was disease. Also, they demanded him t make trade profitable and prevent wars.
The king was considered both king and god. The people thought that he came down from the gods to manage Egypt, so he had complete power.
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