2.4 High and low in society

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2.4 High and low in society

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What are we going tot do today?

- Discussing homework

- What did we do last week?

- Explanation: The visibility and rise on the social ladder

- Assignment: comic Ancient Egypt

Homework

Question 1b

Question 6

What did we do last week?

Framers, field workers and slaves

Craftsman
 , traders and  

low civil servants

The pharaoh and his family

Priests,  high officials and nobles 

Imagine you had a choice, who would you like to be in Ancient Egypt:
- a craftsman
- a civil servant
- a priest
- a pharaoh? Explain your answer.

Visibility of social differences

Who is the most important person in the picture?

1. person nr 1
2. person nr 3
3. person nr 2
4. person nr 4

Social differences were visible

• Social differences could be seen in images, houses, graves and food.
  
• A large drawn person had a higher social position than a person who was drawn smaller.
  

• The rich lived in large houses, they ate meat and drank wine.
  
• The poor lived in one room with the whole family, they ate bread and drank weak beer

Rising on the social ladder

• Children often took over their parents' profession
  
• It was possible to get higher in the social pyramid (for example by becoming a writer or craftsman)
  

• As a writer, you had a good chance of getting high in the social pyramid. Writers were very important and it was difficult to be able to write hieroglyphs (most only learned hieratic writing)

Which of the following sentences are correct:
1. Most Egyptian children took over the work of their parents
2. In ancient Egypt, you could only move up in society by becoming a writer.
3. In ancient Egypt you could easily move up in society.
4. A writer training could take up to 12 years

1. 1 and 2
2. 1 and 4
3. 2 and 3
4. 3 and 4

Comic Ancient Egypt

- Go to: teams - bestanden - Chapter two - Assignment comic Ancient Egypt

- Read the assignment

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