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The Nile River

• Living near the Nile river allowed many people to trade, one of the things traded was food! Most people travel by boat to other countries a villages! A good amount of the people in Ancient Egypt consisted of farmers, if the water didn’t rise, then the plants wouldn’t have much water or fertile soil to help them grow!

Greek Seas

• Ancient Greeks ate a lot of fish and seafood like tuna, mackerel, anchovies, eel, and mussels. So the seas were one of their main providers of food.

Daily Life

• The daily diet of people in Ancient Egypt was bread and beer. The staple diet of the poor include beer, bread, and onions.
• Wealthy Greeks would buy and eat any kind of meat, partridge, songbird, swan, pelican, and duck. Along with hazelnuts, walnuts, and chestnuts, they also grew fruits like apples, pears, olives, grapes, dates, and figs.

Largly Eaten Foods

• The major plants grown along the river were vegetables, barley, and wheat. Ancient Egyptians made beverages and bread from the barley and wheat, these were stored in silos.
• In Ancient Greece bread was eaten at almost every meal, along with cheeses, eggs, milk, fish, and other sea critters.

Property and Land Laws

• Daily life in Ancient Egypt include people who owned their own property, others are peasants that work on the property of rich officials or the pharaoh! Peasants who didn’t own their own land, harvest the crops that are given to the owners of the land for sale or trade.

How Food Was Eaten

• Ancient Egyptians ate food, but how they ate food was also very important. Commoners used plates made of clay, the wealthy’s were made of bronze, silver, and gold. If in want of good manners while eating you would eat with the very tips of your fingers, then wait patiently for the servants to clean your hands in a bowl of water!

Customs and Religouns

• Greeks thought that they need to sacrifice animals to the gods to please. Egyptians believed that ducks, geese, pigs, goats, sheep, and cattle were raised by Egyptians for food, transportation, and also used as a work tool!

Preparation

• Ancient Egyptians knew very little about preparation. They added many things to their food to add flavor like, salt, oil, onions, radishes, and garlic! Well known herbs were coriander, dill, and mint.

Property and Land Laws

• Once it is harvest time the, Egyptian government calculates the size of the fields to find how much tax they will consume! Tax was paid with food and supplies! Many Egyptian people did not like this because several things might have happened to decrease the amount of crops, theft, weather conditions, water supply, and animals that eat the plants.

Land and Soil

• Some land in Egypt had green on top, but under that there is black, wonderful, dirt. This land is called Kemet, “the black land”! Kemet is were the Egyptians grew their crops! Kemet is all around the Nile River! The silt mixes together with the leaves and branches to form a blend full of zinc, iron, and other elements to create vitamins for the soil! This is called Hapi.

Important Inventions Regarding Food

• A shaduf is a contraption that has a weight on one end and makes getting water from the river to the fields a lot easier! Olives were very important to ancient Greeks because oil would be made from the olives and the oil could be used to cook and burned in lamps to create light.