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Notes- Daily Life in Egypt
Name ___________________________
Period ________
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
The Big Picture
 Farmers ________________ and _________________ crops between the yearly
Nile floods.
 Most people worked on huge farms owned by _______________________
______________________, army officers, or scribes.
A Social Pyramid
 A person’s position in _________________depended on what he or she did for
a living.
 The ________________ and __________________ _______________ made up the
largest part of society.
A Social Pyramid- Slavery in Egypt
 Slaves were the ________________ level of the social pyramid.
 Most of the slaves in ancient Egypt were ________________.
 However, enslaved people did have basic _____________in Egypt.
 They had the right to be treated _____________ under the law and
even to __________ property.
 Look at the diagram on the next slide:
 The pharaoh is at the ___________ of the Egyptian Social Pyramid and
the slaves are at the ______________________.
A Social Pyramid
Pharaoh
Government
Officials
Soldiers
Scribes
Merchants
Artisans
Farmers
Slaves
Farms and Cities
 Both in cities and on farms, people enjoyed simple pleasures, such as:
 ________________________________ ___________________
 ____________________ ________________
Notes- Daily Life in Egypt
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Farms and Cities- Farm Life
 Most Egyptians live on big farms.
 The farmers were run by local ___________________.
 Farmers grew and harvested _______________.
 The farmers gave half of the products to the _______________ as taxes.
Farms and Cities- Planting and Harvesting
 To bring water to the fields, farmers dug irrigation canals and hauled water
using _______________________.
 At harvest time women, men, and children headed out to the fields to
__________, ________________, and _____________grain.
 The shares taken by the pharaoh were ____________________ by the scribes
Farms and Cities- Cities in Egypt
 Most craft workers and artists lived in small _________-______________homes.
Farms and Cities- A Busy Neighborhood
 The typical Egyptian neighborhood characteristics:
 Entrance room served as ______________________.
 ______________ living rooms.
 Stairway would lead up to the flat ______________.
 There were everyday ________________.
 Women would go to the local ____________to get water.
Children in Egypt
 Children in Egypt loved to ____________ ___________, make cloth
____________, wrestle, run and play games.
 Farmer’s children had ____________ time to play since they were needed to
help in the fields.
 Carrying ________________and ________________the farm animals were the
children’s daily chores.
Children in Egypt
 Children of _____________ __________________ began working at the age of
5.
 At about the age of 12 girls studied to become ______________________.
 Sons of government leaders became _____________________ to their fathers.
Why it Matters?
 Around the end of the New Kingdom the Egyptian Empire went through
great _________________.
 Around 1100 BC a united Egypt____________________.
 The “___________ _______ ________ ____________” continued to affect
people everywhere.
Notes- Daily Life in Egypt
Name ___________________________
Period ________
Main Ideas
 While Egypt becomes a ______________empire, ordinary people continued
to work in much the same ways as they had for thousands of years.
 Enslaved Syrians and Nubians became key workers in Egypt’s empire.
 They worked alongside ______________ and craft workers to produce
needed crops and goods.
Main Ideas
 Most farmers worked on ________________ farms owned by powerful families.
 Most people in Egypt’s towns and cities lived in __________________
neighborhoods and crafted goods for a living.
Think About It
 How did Egypt’s social pyramid shape life in the New Kingdom?
 The pharaoh, government officials and soldiers were at the
____________.
 The scribes, merchants and artisans were at the ________________.
 The farmers and the slaves were at the _______________________.
Think About It
 How did the growth of Egypt’s empire play a role in the growth of slavery
along the Nile? And how did the enslaved people add to the economy?
 Building an empire leads to ___________ since they are destroying and
conquering to builder larger empires.
 War meant ___________________and ______________________ of people,
whose labor was demanded.
Think About It.
 What was everyday life like of the New Kingdom?
 Farmers and their children had _________________ extra time because
they were needed in the fields.
 Their lives were ____________, work filled, and they lived in modest
houses.
 They had every day __________________, but they had free time for
things such as board games.