Cyber day assignment - more notes on Egypt

Daily Life

• slaves and servants helped the wealthy with household and child raising duties
• raised wheat, barley, lentils, and onions
• artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the after life 
• money /barter system - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment 
• scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments
• scribes wrote in hieroglyphics
• solders used wooden weapons with a bronze tip 
• upper class, know as the "white kilt class" 
• religious and political leaders