Economy
What did peasants provide for all of Egypt?
Food
What would children gather during harvest season?
Grain
What did peasants spend most of their lives doing?
Working-Farming
How would a farmer get water to their crops?
Irrigation.
What was the most common food for a peasant?
Vegetables.
What was the main economy for a peasant
Agriculture
What did peasants do to pass time in the fields?
They would sing
What were peasants generally considered?
Unskilled laborer's
What was a women's main job?
Household duties.
What food did peasants make by hand?
Bread
What rank were peasants in the social pyramid?
Lowest rank.
What houses did peasants live in?
Mud brick houses.
Did women work on farms?
Sometimes.
What jobs were peasants tasked with when they did not farm?
Construction and building.
What did peasants do at the end of harvest season?
Gather leftover grain
What percentage of Egypt did peasants make up?
The majority, 80%
What furniture did they have in their houses?
Mats
What were the three seasons of the Nile?
Flooding season, planting season, and harvest season.
What were kids jobs?
Helping their parents
When did planting season begin?
October
Why would a farmer have to pay extra taxes?
The farmer had a bad harvest.
What games would boys play during their free time?
River games.
What would happen to a farmer if couldn't pay his taxes.
They would get broodily beaten
What would men cut down crops with while farming?
Sickles.
What food did peasants never get to eat?
Meat.