What did scribes do?
- Scribes helped keep track at granaries
- Scribes also kept track of military tracking of what happened.
- Scribes wrote about the things what the pharaoh didWhat was school like?
- Scribes took ten years of hard work to become scribes.
- The teachers were harsh to students if they didn’t want to learn
- An average day was rewriting hieroglyphics over and over How did Scribes learn the writing system?
- For the first years of school they used clay tablets to write
- The last six years scribes used papyrus to write on (our paper)
- Scribes also learned a simple version of hieroglyphics for everyday things like record keeping
- What was a Scribe’s social position?
- Scribes were among the wealthier people in the social structure
- Scribes had lots of the advantages but they didn’t have much power
- Scribes were very respected by other people in ancient Egypt