Daily Life – Food and Drink
Ravi Dev
- Nile River
- The Nile flooded once a year
- The flooding of the Nile river fertilized the farmers soil for crops
- The farmers would harvest once a year
- The Nile River must be flooding in a certain
- area for the farmer’s soil to be fertilized.
- Farming different crops
- Wheat and barley were high in demand
- Egyptians hunted birds mainly but some cows
- To kill four legged animals the Egyptians tied their legs then pushed them down to the ground
- Egyptians had a special way to start a fire with a bow drill and a piece of wood
- Lower class foods vs upper class foods
- Lower class ate a lot of bread
- Upper class had a big range of different foods
- Lower class ate and drank simple foods
- Both rich and poor ate many dairy products
- How farmers work
- Farmers would harvest crops once a year after the flooding of the Nile
- They would sow there fields in pairs
- Farmers used wooden stickles (metal blades with short wooden handles)
- Donkeys were used to bring wheat to the granary
Citations
(Image).www.metmuseum.org.9/17/15.Web.
(Image).www.greenprophet.com.9/17/15.Web