Farms on the nile

Farm houses

• Most Egyptian farmers were poor
• Usually rented small plots of land
• lived in one-story houses made of mud brick

Plowing

• farmers plowed fields when it would flooded 
• oxen were used for plowing with a heavy stick
• they then used a shoulder yoke to make it easier

Questions

• Were most farmers wealthy or poor? 
• When would farmers plow their fields?
• What 2 things were used for plowing?

Answers

• Most Egyptian farmers were poor.
• Farmers would plow their fields after they got flooded
• Farmers used oxen and shoulder yolks for plowing

Summary

• Farmers were poor and lived in small homes.
• the family worked together to do chores.
• farmers plowed when the field was wet.
• Farmers used canals that carried water to there fields.
• They used Flint-bladed sickles for harvesting.