Daily Life in Egypt

Why are Egypt's social classes represented using a pyramid?

• The triangle represented the three seasons of the Nile.

• Most people were in the bottom classes, and the fewest people were at the top.

• Scientists like to use a pyramid to keep the layers apart.

• Pyramids were already in Egypt anyway.

How did most government officials get their jobs?

• They attended school to learn how to govern.

• People voted for them.

• Priests relied on signs from the gods to choose them.

• They inherited the position from a family member.

Why did Egyptians bury some bread and beer with their dead?

• to show them respect

• to avoid the risk of poison

• to feed them in the afterlife

• to perform a sacrifice to the gods

Why did it take many years to become a scribe?

• Papyrus was very difficult to write on.

• There were hundreds of hieroglyphs to learn.

• Students had to save money to buy a position.

• Teachers so mean to their students that they ran away from school.

How did many farmers pay their taxes?

• grain

• paper money

• copper coins

• music at banquets

The top place on the social pyramid is for the 

• farmers
• artisans
• priests
• pharoah

Which group is second on the Social Pyramid of Ancient Egypt?

• Artisans
• Peasants
• Scribes
• Government Officials

Treating a dead body with preservatives to keep it from decaying is called 

• preserving
• embalming
• freezing
• petrifying

A famine is 

• a shortage of food
• disease
• a new way of farming
• a stone coffin

A sarcophagus is 

• a symbol
• a mask
• a large stone cofffin
• a government official