Bell Ringer: 10-8

• Do you believe the weighing of the heart was an accurate ceremony for truth?

• Explain you answer

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• PG 15: Home

• Pg 16: Daily Life 1 c-n

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Daily Life of Ancient Egypt

• Life in Ancient Egypt Centered around:

PharaohFamily

Family Life

• They loved their children.

• lower class= mother raised children.

• wealthy families= slaves, servants that assisted mothers

• If a family could not have children, they would pray to the gods all the time.

• They would also use magic to try to get children

• They could also adopt if they wanted to.

Peasant Life…Farming:Grain makes

Bread

Diet:Veggies and

Grain

Heavy-Taxes

Homes of Ancient Egypt…

Straw and Mud

Homes Continued…

• Size: Huge• Roofs: Flat • Unique Doors: 4 feet off the ground.

• Why?? Reduce sand and water from coming into your house from the Nile.

More about Homes…

• Homes of the Nobles: 25-30 rooms• Homes of the Peasants: Small but Nice

• Unique Sleeping: Slept on Roofs• Why?

• How Big were Homes? As big as you wanted. Easy to get materials.

Cooler Temperature

Houses for wealthy

• Made of bricks and sun dried mud called “adobe”• They only had little wood.• Divided into three areas: a reception area, a hall, and the private quarters. • The windows and doors on the house were covered with mats to keep out the

flies, dust, and heat.• Inside had wall hangings made of leather, and the floors were covered with

tile.• Sometimes there was a room on the roof with three walls where the family

slept on hot summer nights.

Building a house.

Houses for poor• Lived in houses 2-3 stories high.• First Floor : held for businesses• Second and Third Floors : the family living area.• Sometimes slept on the roof during the summer to keep cool.• Sewage had to be thrown out into pits, the river, or the streets.• Most all people had some furniture.• Things you find in a commoners house : A stool, small boxes for jewelry and cosmetics, chests

for clothing, pottery jars, and oil lamps. • Most of Egyptians did not have many belongings that had to be hidden so a chest or basket

would use plenty of their space.• Tables were rarely used. • Each home had a fly catcher.

Egyptians bringing in furniture.

Bell Ringer 10-10

• Which pharaoh do you believe is most important to Ancient Egypt?

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• PG 19: Journal/Apperance

• Pg 20: Daily life 2 c-n

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Ancient Egyptian Clothing…

• Main piece of clothing: Tunic or a long t-shirt

The Tunic…

• Men wore it down to their Knees

• Women wore it down to their ankles

More Clothing….• Footwear: Barefoot or Sandals• Workers Clothing: loin cloth• Wealthy Clothing: Long Robes• Priests: Leopard robe

Appearance….

•Men AND women BOTH: Wore Eyeshadow

Appearance Continued…

• ONLY Men: No Face Hair• ONLY Women: Hair down to Shoulders

• ONLY Women:Scented Fat on head…

Why?

Women• An Egyptian wife and mother were

respected in this ancient society.• Sometimes wives and mothers of

pharaohs were secretly the "real" ruling power in government

• Commoners did not know about it.• Were treated equally as men in many

ways.• Owned land, took part in business

deals• Punished the same way as men were• Queen Hatshepsut was the only

woman who stood out of the line when she announced herself pharaoh.

A statue of QueenHatshepsut. Displayed at the Metropolitian Museum of Art.

Children• Boys learned a job from their fathers.

• Girls trained at home with their mothers.

• Families that could afford sent their sons (age 7) to school.

• They would study religion, reading, writing, and arithmetic there.

• no schools for girls

Not everybody could afford expensive toys. Clay was formed into dolls, toy animals and other play things because it was available from nature.(This is a clay cat)