Cities and Government

1. Cities and Government By: Selena Pacheco, Devin Lisboa , Adiah Rodrigues, Christopher Santiago

2. The Social Pyramid Pharaohs Nobles, Priests, and Officials Merchants and Artisans Farmers, Servants, and Slaves

3. Facts of Egyptians Civilization • Hunting was a mainly a recreation for kings and courtiers. • Courtiers started hunting on foot, then they used chariots. • The Nile was plentiful of fish, caught with hooks and nets. • Hunted wild bulls, gazelles, orxy, antelopes, and lions. • homes were made of bricks, made from Nile mud. • The mud was collected in leather buckets and taken

4. The Egyptian homes • Houses built from bricks from the Nile mud. • Workers added straw and pebbles to the mud to strengthen it and pour the mixture into wooden frames to make bricks. • Left out in the sun to dry, when a house was built, its walls would be covered with plaster the inside was often painted, either with patterns or scenes from nature.

5. Food and drink • The Nile flood allowed farmers to grow barley, and emmer wheat, the mainstay of the Egyptian diet. • the flood plain was also suitable for the cultivation of vegetables such as onions, garlic, leek, beans, lentils, and lettuce. • Also gourds, dates and figs, cucumbers and melons, but no citrus fruits. • There were also pigs, sheep, and goats, which could be boiled or roasted

6. Song and Dance • Party scenes on tomb walls, songs on papyri, and musical instruments show us how much music and revelry meant to them. • Had great public festivals, at which thousands of people would come and be entertained. • They used to play music from flutes, harps, and castanets.

7. Toys and games • Some games they are still played by children today. • “khuzza lawizza” or called today leapfrog and tug-of-war. • Egyptian paintings showed boys playing soldiers and girls holding hands in a sort of spinning dance. • Egyptians were also great storytellers kept their children amused with popular tales of imagination and enchantment.

8. Fabric to Finery • Flax provided linen for clothes for everyone in ancient Egypt. • The earliest picture of a loom in Egypt is on a pottery bowl dated to c. 3000 B.C.E • Flax was used for thousands of years after this. • A pharaoh would have exceptionally fine linen. • Workers would use loincloths of coarser fabric. • There are still only blurred ideas about how the Egyptians put pleats into there clothes.

9. Government • The pharaohs owned all of Egypt and everything in it, such as the land, animals, and all the people. • They could tell anyone what to do and they would have to do it. • The Egyptian government was a monarchy. • Pharaohs chose people to represent them and assigned the people to big estates all over Egypt.

10. Government • Rich men and women ran the estates, they could tell everyone what to do but the rich also had to follow what the pharaoh said. • The rich had to send the pharaohs some of the food of that had grown on that land. • When the pharaohs were weaker especially in the first and second intermediate periods sometimes they could not make the rich people do what they wanted them to.

11. Kingdoms • Dynasty- ruling family. • Pharaoh- king of a united kingdom. • Two kingdoms ruled Egypt, the kings of upper Egypt wore white crowns, and the lower Egypt wore red crowns. • Historians divided Egypt's history into periods and dynasties.

12. Old Kingdom • The old kingdom was a period of prosperity. • 2686 BC to 2125 the old kingdom that is how long ago it was around.

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