Social Classes A
Which social class built the pyramids for the pharaohs (did the hard, manual labor)
Peasants
Which of social class was second to last?
artisans
Egypt's main highway
What is the Nile River?
This is one way that a boy from a peasant family could rise to a higher social class.
What is attend scribe school.
Most peasants lived in this.
What is mud-brick houses.
How did government officials get their jobs?
The inherited it from a family member
a diagram showing the social classes from highest to lowest
What is a social pyramid?
The role of women in religion.
What is priestesses
This is why it took many years to become a scribe.
How were farmers paid?
grain (or other goods)
What class was ONLY for men?
Scribes
group of people with the same level of education and power
What is a social class?
adviser to the pharaoh
What is a vizier?
Skilled scribes wrote on papyrus, which was made from what?
What is a plant.
second highest group in the social pyramid; people with money and land
Who are the nobles?
Which social status was the third on the pyramid?
priests
Why did the ancient Egyptians believe that social classes were a good idea?
They believed that society worked only when people knew their roles. It created order.
Stone with translations of hieroglyphics, demotic, and ancient Greece
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What did peasants do when the Nile River had flooded and they could not farm?
They worked on royal projects building monuments and temples.
What is embalming?
preserving a body
higher social classes have more education while lower classes have less education
What is the relationship between social class and education
They believed that society worked only when people knew their roles. It created order.
Government, Women
What was the job of the Chief Treasurer?
advised the pharaoh, looked after the government's wealth, and collected taxes
This was in the sanctuary of a temple.
What is a statue of god.
The work of ancient Egyptian artisans help us learn today about life in ancient Egypt by this.
What is carved and painted scenes of everyday life.