Social Classes
This shape is used to describe the social classes of ancient Egypt because most people were at the bottom.
What is a pyramid?
Egyptian women had the right to do this if they were unhappy in a marriage.
What is divorce?
Government officials lived this type of lifestyle.
What is luxurious?
This was one of the few ways a boy from a peasant family could rise to a higher social class.
What is become a scribe?
These were the main crops grown by peasants.
What are wheat and barley?
This group was at the top of the social pyramid.
What is a pharaoh?
This religious role was open to women in ancient Egypt.
What is a priestess?
Most government officials were related to this ruler.
What is a pharaoh?
It took many years to become a scribe because students had to learn these.
During flooding season, peasants did this type of work.
What are royal projects?
Of these groups, this one had the lowest social status.
This job was only permitted to men.
What is a scribe?
This type of clothing was worn by priests to stay pure.
What are linen clothes?
Scribes wrote on papyrus, which was made from this.
What is a plant?
Between artisans and peasants, this group had the lower social status.
What are peasants?
Carpenters and potters belonged to this level of society.
What is an artisan?
This was something women in ancient Egypt were allowed to own.
Priests had to do these things to remain pure.
What is avoid certain foods?
What is cleanse their bodies?
What is shave off body hair?
What is wear linen clothes?
Scribes had to go through this many years of schooling to become a scribe.
What is 12 years?
Most peasants lived in houses made from this material.
What are mud bricks?
This group made up the second smallest group on Egypts social pyramid.
What are government officials?
Women in ancient Egypt could work in this professional field.
What is a doctor?
What is a pharaoh?
What is a priestess?
Because they did not have much work to do, government officials had time to do this.
What is time to socialize?
This is the reason it took many years for students to complete scribe training.
What is because there were hundreds of hieroglyphs to learn?
These were some specific artisan jobs.
What are carpenters, sculptures, weavers, or potters?