Daily Life:
- Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments
- They wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic
- Soldiers used wooden weapons (bow and arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots
- Egypt moved along quickly
- Upper class, known as the "white kilt class"- priests, physicians, engineers
- The bleached their clothes
- Knew they were upper class just walking down the street
- Religious and political leader- pharaohs
- Tell what religious ceremonies to preform what sacrifices to do to keep gods happy
Pharaohs:
- The political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: 'Lord of the Two Lands' and 'High Priest of Every Temple'
- As 'Lord of the Two Lands' the pharaoh was the ruler of the Upper and Lower Egypt.
- He owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners
- Beard was probably fake and showed you were a pharaoh
- Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh
- Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later (51-30 BC) more on her when we study Greece
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