S.S. ancient Egypt daily life

What was the Opet Festival?

• A once-per-year festival that celebrated the Nile Flooding. It brought social classes together.

• A festival where people took off of work and everybody disregarded the pharaoh's orders.

• A festival where farmers got to through leftover grains on the pharaoh to get revenge for being lower in the social pyramid.

• A festival where the pharaoh took his advisers and scribes to go and trade with other nations.

What were the Egyptian social class rankings in best to worst order?

• Peasants, the pharaoh, government officials, priests, scribes, and artisans.

• Farmers, traders, and government officials.

• Pharaoh, government officials, priests, scribes, artisans, and peasants.

What is ma'at? (SELECT 2)

• A famous temple in the heart of Kush.

• The ceremony where a pharaoh is buried.

• An Egyptian principle which stressed the order of truth and balance.

• The ancient Egyptian goddess of truth, justice, harmony, and balance.

What did government officials do?

• They built statues and monuments to honor the pharaoh.

• They carried out the orders of the pharaoh, were powerful and wealthy, and enjoyed a high quality of life.

• They collected taxes in the form of grains, jewels, goods, and cows.

• They wrote down the pharaoh's history.

What did a priest or priestess do?

• They were responsible for the temples and religious rituals as well as the elaborate ceremonies surrounding death and burial.

• They were responsible for preparing food for the pharaoh.

• They were responsible for telling the pharaoh when the next temple would be built and they supervised building projects.

• They were responsible for the well-being of all citizens and they took care of the ill.

Select the 3 true scribe facts. (3)

• They held a respected position in society.

• They could only be male and it took many years of schooling to become a scribe.

• They were in charge of the pharaoh's tomb's gardens.

• They recorded information for government and religious leaders.

• They welcomed newcomers to the nation that wanted to trade with them.

Artisans were not a respected group on Egypt's social pyramid even though they were highly skilled. What did they do?

• They were craftspeople like carpenters, metalworkers, painters, sculptors, and stone carvers.

• They did chores for rich people like cleaning the house, making artwork, cooking, and clearing chamber pots

• They mapped what were thought to be unknown nations and they planned expeditions there.

• They came up with war plans to lead army into battle and they taught kids how to capture their enemies.

What did peasants do?

• They were at the front of the line for a war so they could be the first to die.

• They were in charge of trials and had to be fair and neutral.

• They were farmers providing Egypt with a steady food supply. They also worked on Egypt's massive building projects when not farming.

• They were a temple's sacred cleaner and they had to wear all white and have no body hair.

Select 3 true facts about viziers (3).

• The vizier advised the pharaoh and carried out his/her commands.

• He/she cleaned the pharaoh's throne.

• The vizier decided whether or not the food should be harvested.

• The vizier appointed and supervised many of the other government officials.

• A fair and neutral chief judge for trials.

What did the chief treasurer do?

• The chief treasurer collected taxes in the form of grains, cows, cloth, and silver.

• The chief treasurer was in charge of the army and overthrowing other nation's rulers.

• The chief treasurer was in charge of farming.

• The chief treasurer was the determiner of how long one should be punished or stay in jail for.