Daily Life-Writing and Education

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
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