ANCIENT EGYPT

MEN'S ROLES IN SOCIETY

• Men would help raise their sons.
• They would teach them about trading.
• They would also teach them how to craft.

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• Men were able to marry and divorce.
• They could receive inheritance
• And they could also pursue legal disputes in court.

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• Unlike women men could take part in official roles and administration.
• The richer the man was he usually worked in government or a business.
• Lower class non rich men worked in the fields as a slave making food or clothing for the wealthy.

WOMEN'S ROLES IN SOCIETY

• Women usually did all the family jobs.
• Family jobs usually included raising and giving birth to children.
• Most women served their husbands.
• Girls trained and helped out their mothers at home.

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• In the first dynasties women were buried in individual tombs like men with statues of themselves alone
• Later the administration grew stronger so women lost power.
• The fifth dynasty and onward instead of women being in individual statues they had to be shown in a group.

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• Women could also like men own and sell properties
• They could also marry and divorce and make contracts
• They could also pursue legal disputes
• Women even had a chance at becoming pharaoh
• But women only served a secondary role in temples and in the administration they didn't choose to take part in an official role

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• Lower class women spent days in the field
• They also made food and clothes like a slave for the rich
• Some women had a possibility of becoming pharaoh
• Marriage usually consisted of a woman being 13 years old.

CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS FARMING

• Based on a farming season they started to develop a calendar.
• The seasons were called the planting season, flooding season, and the harvest season.
• These seasons lasted around three months.

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• Adding up all the days it was 360.
• The Egyptians felt that they needed more days in the calendar.
• So they added 5 holy days to praise the gods.

CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS PYRAMIDS

• Pyramids were huge royal tombs.
• Egyptians buried there kings in these massive.
• These structures developed cities around them.

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• Because of thieves this place had to be heavily guarded.
• The pharaohs were always buried with goods to bring with them to the afterlife.

CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS MUMMIES

• Egyptians thought after you died there was a beautiful place and you had to prepare for it.
• They called it the afterlife.

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• But before you went to the after life there was three requirements.
• Your name must have been written down somewhere in more places the better.
• Your heart was weighed with a magic feather if your heart was light you go to heaven.
• Your body had to have been preserved.

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• The way they did this was through mummification.
• You had to dry someone out and wrap them with bandages.
• Bodies were preserved for your Ka and ba to find there way to you at night.
• The ba and Ka are parts of your soul.