DO NOW: Write in your composition book the

following questions and answer them.

1. What is a social class?2. Give an example of a social class at

Carr.

Homework: Write in your Planner

Egyptian Social Class

Rewind: Social whaaat?

• Social Class = group of people in society with the same income level or status

Egyptian Social ClassesOn your DO NOW paper draw a pyramid and put the classes below in order from

highest to lowest

• Scribes and government officials• Pharaoh• Craftspeople and merchants• Priests and nobles• Slaves• Farmers

Class Zone

• http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/ms_wh_aemt/resources/html/animations/wh04_egyptsocial.html

Pharaoh

• The ruler, or pharaoh was considered a god.

Priests/Nobles

• Priests an nobles are the powerful people in charge of religion and government.

Scribes & Government Officials

• Together they organized the government and kept it running smoothly.

Craftspeople & Merchants

• They produced and sold goods Egyptians needed.

Egyptian Farmers

• Worked the field to supply Egypt w/ foods and crops.

Laborers & Slaves

• These people did all the most difficult and dangerous work for Egyptian society.

CLIP!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8pEXd4s1yU

• 1:37-3:10

Women in Egypt

• Gender Roles• Women’s primary job in both Sumer and

Ancient Egypt was to take care of the children.• In Egypt, women had almost equal rights.

Women could own property and take other jobs, like weaving.

• There were also some famous women Pharaohs, including Hatshepsut and Cleopatra.

True or False REVIEW!

• Slaves in Sumer had no rights• The job of most women in Sumer and Ancient

Egypt was to take care of the children.• Women in Ancient Egypt had less rights than

women in Sumer.• There were no women Pharaohs.• Women in Egypt could own land.

T/F Continued….

• The biggest Social Class in Ancient Egypt was the scribes.

• The biggest social class in Ancient Egypt was the laborers and slaves.

• Landowners in Mesopotamia were in the lowest class.

• In Sumer, famers and artisans were in the middle class.

T/F…AGAIN!!...

• In Egypt, merchants were higher in the social hierarchy than scribes.

• In Egypt, farmers were lower in the social hierarchy than craftspeople and merchants.

• In Egypt, priests and nobles were at the same level as the Pharaoh.

• In Egypt, scribes and government officials were at the same level.