Cyber day Essay posts

Hierarchy of Ancient Egypt

      

       There was many differences in the Egyptian community during the ancient times. The social groups consisted of the upper class that dealt with laws and religious beliefs. The middle class where people created some of the greatest structures that stand today. And the lower class where people worked for the higher class people. This hierarchy worked for the Egyptians because it allowed them to have one dominant ruler, the pharaoh, and they were able to create laws that helped organize their society. With this order the Egyptians were able to build stable villages that led to them having one of the longest periods of unbroken stability in history.

      The upper class consisted of soldiers, scribes, government officials like the priests and nobles, and of course the pharaoh. Soldiers defended the Egyptian villages and fought in wars for their country. They used wooden weapons with bronze tips and they usually rode on chariots. The scribes wrote everything down for the Egyptians in hieroglyphs or hieratic. They also told stories and recorded medical treatments for many diseases and injuries that they found. This is one of the reasons why the Egyptians were so successful, they were very medically advanced. Next is the government officials, these people helped the pharaoh make decisions for his country. Which leads me into the supreme ruler of Egypt, the pharaoh. This man  ruled over everyone and owned al of the land, he also made every political or religious decision. He created the laws and collected all the taxes. It was believed by the Egyptians that the pharaoh was just another god.

       Next was the middle class, merchants and artisans were considered to be in this class. The merchants bartered with people to get animals and crops for their country. But later coins were created and merchants began buying and selling goods using the coin system. Artisans designed and created some of the most well known structures that stand today. They constructed the pyramids for Egypt which are giant tombs for great pharaohs, and the Great Sphinx which was built from 2555-2532 B.C. This giant monument depicted the image of a giant lion body with a human head. This structure still stands today and is visited by many people from all over the world.

     Finally we have the lower class, these people were very common and did most of the hard work that the pharaohs needed done. These people were farmers and slaves, farmers domesticated animals to help with the farming. They also grew wheat, barley, lentils, and onions that provided the society with enough food to eat. The slaves helped and did all the work for the wealthy.

 

The Importance of the Nile River

   

 The Nile river helped the Egyptians become so successful during the ancient times. It provided the Egyptian people with the basic needs of life, it was worshipped strongly by the Egyptians like it was a gift rom god. All Egyptian societies were built along the Nile which flowed from south to north, it provided them with water, food, transportation, and an irrigation system. if the Nile wasn't used by the Egyptians they would have never been as successful as they were.

    The Egyptians used the Nile a lot for transportation, they shipped food and resources our the Nile on boats, this saved a lot of time and hard work. Also because the Egyptians used boats so much they were able to upgrade them and created sailboats. This allowed the Egyptians to use wind power to push their boats along the Nile. With this new technology that they made they were also able to create even more technology that helped their society greatly even more.

      The Nile gave the Egyptians almost all of their food and water supply. The river gave them water for their crops and for them to drink, also all of the animals that lived in the Nile like fish provided the people of Egypt with plenty of food to eat. If that wasn't enough the Egyptians also used the Nile for irrigation. They used the river to water their farm land so they could grow crops and create even more food for them. They also used the Niles current to push heavy things down the coast which saved a lot of man power and time. If it wasn't for the Nile, Egyptians would of had to worry about food and water supply too much, especially since they lived in the dry climate of Egypt. If they spent all of their time trying to find food and water they would have never created some of the technological advances that we still use today.