Did Slaves Build The Pyramids Dbq

Slaves did build the The Great Pyramid, but they were not the only ones. I know this on the grounds that 5 documents led to the truth about The Great Pyramids. Not only was it slaves but it was every other Egyptians no matter what age.

One way I know that every Egyptians and slaves built the pyramids comes from Document A. In this document it states ¨He compelled all the Egyptians to work for him¨ This was talking about building the pyramids and how every single Egyptian had to help in some way. There were people doing things as small as paying for food for the Egyptians and slaves, to something as big as dragging stones as heavy as a car on a road nearly a mile long and twenty yards wide and elevated at its highest of sixteen yards. The

important thing about this is all the Egyptians would be including the slaves. The definition of a slave is a person who is forced unwillingly to do free labor. Due to the definition of a slave's all the people working to build the pyramids were slaves. This leads me into my next piece of evidence coming from Document A.
In Document A it stated “Sixteen hundred talents of silver had been paid.” Then later on it states about the money “Must have been spent on the iron with which they worked, and the workmen’s food and clothing…” This suggests that Pharaoh is tricking the slave into thinking they were getting respect and honor. But meanwhile the only reason they were being supplied with these essentials is so they will not lose any workmen, which would only make the process of building one of the pyramids longer and more painful. This proves my point that based on the facts everyone that built the pyramids were slaves.

Finally in Document E states “So a certain proportion (maybe 25%) of the workers were Egyptians of high status” This evidence proving my point that slaves built the pyramids because this says that 75% of those “workmen” would be slaves. But then as I mentioned earlier even that 25%, based on the statistics are qualified as slaves.

All of this proves that slaves were the ones who built The Great Pyramids of Giza. Because of what was stated in Document A “He compelled all the Egyptians to work for him.” Document A “Must have been spent on the iron with which they worked, and the workmen’s food and clothing…” And finally Document E “So a certain proportion (maybe 25%) of the workers were Egyptians of high status.”