Social Life in Ancient Egypt

By : Silfiani

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The Egyptian’s social life is structured lika a pyramid. On the top is the Gods. The Egytian believe in their Gods and they should always make the Gods happy. After the Gods, they also believe in Gods in human form. They believe that their leaders are the Gods in human form called pharaohs. They are really respectful with their leaders. After their leaders pass away, they will build a huge pyramid stone as their graveyard. After the pharaohs, they have chief minister as the pharaohs’ supervisor. There are also the nobles and priests who are responsible to please the Gods. And the soldiers who are responsible for fighting. And the last, at the bottom of the pyramid there are slaves and farmers, the slavers are those who captured and becomethe prisoners of the war.

About 5000 years ago, the language the Egyptian use is in pictographic form written language they still use pictographic until 400 AD they change to Greek alphabet but with some additions., that form is called Coptic by the Egyptian. And eventually the language change into Arabic, the language that be used in Egypt until today. The Coptic are so hard to be understood, most of the Egyptian can’t understand it and they think it is kind of magic spell but in 1799, one of the Egyptian discover the key to read the Coptic. But until today, the Egyptian are mostly use Arabic.

The Ancient Egypt’s social life are based on the ancient civilizations. They are really strict with equality. Both men and woman can participate in the politic, economic and other aspect. Because in the ancient Egypt methology, both the God and Goddess have the important role. Some of the God and Goddess are Shu, the God of air, Tefnut, Goddess of moisture, Atum, God of sun, Nut, sky Goddess and many others.

References : 

~ http://people.csail.mit.edu/hanna/Egypt/index18.html

~ http://www.watson.org/~leigh/egypt.html

~ http://www.ushistory.org/civ/3b.asp