For a few thousand years most of what people did was hunting and gathering. Than they started to do farming which was a great way to feed more people. The Egyptians lived by the Nile and the soil was fertile, so it was good for farming. Once they started farming there was more population because they could feed more. With more people the civilization started to become more complex. Then, as Egypt started to become more complex the seven indicators were used.
One way that ancient Egypt was complex was that they had a method of keeping records. The ancient Egyptians had a very complicated method of keeping records. Hieroglyphs were very complicated. The first type of writing in ancient Egypt was hieroglyphs. They would keep track of trade and
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There was an upper and lower class in ancient Egypt. The pharaohs, viziers, nobles or high priests, officials, and scribes made up the upper class of Egypt. The pharaoh was the most important person in all of Egypt. He was worshiped as a leader and also as a god. After the pharaoh was the viziers. The viziers served the pharaohs. Then there was the nobles. The nobles were the overseers of the pharaoh. The officials and the nobles had similar jobs. They would collect the taxes. Lastly there was the scribes. The scribes kept record of everything in Ancient Egypt. They would record taxes and keep record of trade. Those are the people that make up the upper class of Egypt. The artisans, farmers, and peasants made up the lower class.The artisans worked in workshops. They were also known as craftsmen. The farmers would try to save money so that they could send their children to get an education. The farmers would pay their taxes in grain instead of money. Most ancient Egyptians were peasants. The peasants, took care of their animals, hunted, fished, turned wheat into bread, and made clothes. The slaves did most of the work in ancient Egypt. According to History For Kids, the slaves were a major part of the Egyptian culture and the slaves were forced to do any labor by their owner. Slaves were known as property instead of people. When giving out punishments most people would get a hand cut off as a punishment but a …show more content…
There were regular cities and capital cities. The largest and most important cities in Egypt were called capital cities. The first capital city was Thinis. Memphis, Tanis, Sais, and Alexandria are some of the other capital cities. The center of the city was a temple. The temples took up most of the city. The houses around the temple were the pharaoh's officials homes. The cities were usually named after the god of the city. Egypt was split up into two parts. Upper and lower Egypt. The cities that were closest to the Mediterranean Sea was the lower part.The cities farther south was upper Egypt. Memphis, Saqqara, Giza and Rosetta were a few cities located in lower Egypt. Memphis was the capital of the old kingdom. Almost 20 pharaohs built their pyramid in Saqqara. Giza is famous for the pyramids that are located there. Rosetta is where the famous Rosetta stone is found. The stone was essential to translating hieroglyphs. Aswan, Thebes, and Abydos were a few cities in upper Egypt. Aswan is where the temple of Isis is located and the rock temples of Rameses II and Queen Nefertari. Thebes is one of the most famous cities and is the capital of the middle and new kingdom. Abydos was one of the holiest cities in Egypt because the god Osiris is believed to be buried
Egypt is located in North Africa, it is along the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile river, which runs through the center of Egypt, acts as a great water source. It’s floods create fertile soil for farming. Egypt was divided into two an upper and a Lower Egypt based on the flow of the river. Upper Egypt was in the south. It was called Upper Egypt because the Nile flowed upstream. Lower Egypt was in the north, it held the Nile delta.
Ancient Egypt was a single tightly organized state for much of its history (Centanni, n.d.). In all its phases, the Egyptian government was led by the pharaoh. The pharaoh was held to be descended from gods, with the power to assure success and control the rituals that assured the flow of the Nile and the fertility derived from irrigation. Wanting gods to favor Egypt, the entire population of people did not hesitate to carry out laws that the pharaoh placed upon them. Egypt’s pharaohs claimed additional power and authority as actual incarnations of the gods
In the first civilization, both Mesopotamia and Egypt relied on a hunter-gatherer economic system, during that time, every country in the world strived on it. Mesopotamia had rich soil for agriculture, but experiences floods. For the Mesopotamians, these floods would destroy major cities, but for the Egyptians it would keep the soil rich all year long without the damage that the Mesopotamians had experienced. With the rich soil foods were plentiful around the farm lands, which gave both countries the chance to establish largely dense areas, like what we now know as a city-state. The Nile River also served as a defense for the Egyptians they enjoyed centuries of tranquility and peace in which they used to develop peaceful development of their civilization. For the Mesopotamians, this wasn’t the case.
Ancient Egypt was a complex civilization because it had all of the important civilization indicators, Every complex society has a government the Government In Ancient Egypt the king was known as the pharaoh. The pharaoh was the most powerful person in Egypt what the pharaoh did was he made the laws, Collected taxes, and he was the political leader. The pharaoh was called the Lord of Two lands because he was the ruler of Upper and Lowers Egypt since he was the king he owned all the land in Egypt. The government was a well respected and organized government. Ancient Egypt could not achieve much without all the levels cooperating together.
In a cradle of civilization where survival trumped education in life’s necessities, it should be of little surprise that the literate were an elite class who were catapulted to the upper echelon of Egyptian society. There was no attempt to provide free and universal schooling, so the only people who received any education were the wealthy. Anyone of a lower class such as peasants, soldiers, farmers, or tradesmen had to toil in physical labor daily just to survive. To them, education was a luxury that they would never achieve. Scribes were some of the most educated and revered people in Egypt. Royal scribe Nebmare-nakht extolled the virtues of becoming a scribe in a letter to his son who, judging by said letter, appears to be resisting the family business in a rebellious p...
The Egyptian society consisted of three kingdoms (Old, Middle, and New) and about thirty-four different dynasties. The Egyptians were ruled by kings or pharaohs. The earlier rulers were called “Horus-kings”. I think that they called themselves “Horus-kings” because they thought the pharaoh was associated with Horus. That’s probably true in the Egyptians mind because they did believe that the pharaoh was basically a god. There were many rulers over the time due to disease, illness, etc. The Egyptians had only the pharaoh to tell them what to do and to deal with the people’s problems, although it more the vizier who dealt with the people. Unlike the Egyptians the Ottomans didn’t have as many kings or dynasties. Ottoman had about thirty-six kings over the course of the empire. They had quite fewer because they had better times to live in there possibly was less disease and better living. The sultans ruled for about twenty years. Few sultans ruled twice. The reason some rules twice was because they step down and let their successor rule and went back into power again after their successor. Between both civilizations the rulers ruled until their death, some of them did step down for another ruler to take rule. I think that some of them did actually ruled to their death but not much information was given for the Egyptians because of the amount of kings or rulers that the Egyptians had.
Egypt is situated in the Nile valley in the north east of Africa. Ancient Egypt included two regions a southern region, and northern region. The southern region is called Upper Egypt, and the northern region was called Lower Egypt. The life around Ancient Egypt centers on the Nile River and the fertile land around the banks of the river. Farmers created an irrigation system to control the water flow, so the crops can grow in both the rainy and dry seasons. This irrigation system made a surplus in crops.
The development of cities is essential in the development of a civilization. Egypt’s cities began close to the Nile River. The Nile ran directly through the land and was the main attraction to settlers. It flooded every year, and in doing so, it fertilized the ground and allowed the growth
Egyptians cherished family life the way we cherish food or money. Children were considered a blessing. They prayed for them and used magic to have children, but if a couple could not conceive they adopted. Men were the head of the household and the oldest son inherited everything of the father’s. Egyptian women were to obey their fathers and husbands, but were equal in many other ways. For example, women could have jobs, some rights in court cases, and they were able to own land. Women were also allowed to own businesses. Only noble women, however, could be priestesses. The women raised the children and took care of the house. Wealthy families would hire maids and nannies to do such things. Divorce was not common in Ancient Egypt, though it was an option. Problems were talked about between families, and if they could not be settled a divorce would take place. Some women became rulers but only in secret. The only woman who ruled as a pharaoh in the open was Queen Hatsheput. Ordinary men normally had one wife, while pharaohs and kings had several. Most marriages were arranged by parents. Most girls married at age twelve while boys were usually a little older.
Egypt was one of the first River Valley Civilizations. In Egypt there were big advances in art, math and science and also pottery. We still use the same number system and they even had fractions back in that time. During the Old Kingdom times the pyramids were built. The pyramids were tombs for the pharaohs of Egypt. These pyramids are one of the most popular historical sites in the world.
So that is why they would always drink the drinks that they made. Although the Nile River would flow North to the Mediterranean, melting snow from the mountains in the South, would cause the Nile to flood on its way North to egypt. When that would happen it left behind a rich fertile soil that made it easier for them to grow crops. What did the upper-class egyptians eat? The upper class egyptians would eat meat and milk.
Egypt had many intricate structures that have made history, but the most important of the designs is their social structure. The society of Egypt was structured as a pyramid with the pharaoh at the top. The elite part of society contains the nobles, priests, viziers, and government officials. Next, soldiers and military are used for protection and to keep order throughout the kingdom. The scribes record and keep records about the kingdom. Merchants, artisans, and farmers are a large section of the pyramid. They supply the kingdom with food, money, and jobs. Last, slaves and servants are their to help and support the people above them. Each part of society has their role to benefit the kingdom as a whole. The pharaoh is at the top of the pyramid and must control all of society.
There are many valid points to be made in Ancient Egyptian agriculture. Irrigation, ploughing and planting, harvesting, and of course, crops. These will be some of the subtopics I will be touching upon in this essay of ancient Egyptian agriculture.
The early Dynastic Period was Egypt?s era of initial unification and state building under the guidelines of its first three royal dynasties. In the years between 2660 and 2180 B. C. the basic marks of the cultures of Egypt arose. Egypt was one kingdom and it was divided into provinces, or the names of provinces. Ruling over the kingdom was a pharaoh, who was not only a king but was also seen as a god. Provinces were ruled by nomarchs better known as provincial governors. The Egyptians devised themselves into classes, upper class, middle class, and a lower class. The pharaoh and his family were at the top of the Egyptian class system. People could move from one class to another depending on their situations.
The Egyptians have the artwork/architecture in the form of the Pyramid of Giza, Sphinx, etc. which is known as one of the wonders of the world. The civilization had a well-organized government in the form of the monarchy and also theocratic in ways. From having the Pharaoh has the head of the country with the help of viziers, nobles, priests, etc. making decisions for the civilians. Ancient Egyptian believed in many gods, polytheism. In addition the people thought of the Pharaohs as god and worshipped them.