Daily Life: Crafts and Trade

Neha Sharma

Arts and Pharaohs

Most craftspeople created their works of arts for the pharaohs, for wealthy families, or for temples.
They often went to school in the pharaoh’s palace, along with children of royalty.
Artists who worked for the royal and wealthy families, or for the temples, were well paid in food and other goods.
Those who became master craftspeople held a high status in society.

Life of an Artist what They Make and Use

Egyptians used simple tools produce various of crafts
Crafts people worked as sandal makers, stone carvers, leather workers, metal workers, sculptors, weavers, carpenters, jewelers, potters, and painters.
They made jewelry with gold an stone, created highly finished furniture, and produced statues made of bronze, glass, and stone.
Most craftspeople were men, and many of were taught from very young.
Many of them lived much better than ordinary members of the low class

Trading in General

Ancient Egyptians traded their crafts and resources with other countries and empires near and far.
Cities and towns near the Nile River were great trade centers.
Trade was controlled by the pharaohs.
Egypt traded goods such as grain, copper, gold, linen, gemstones, and various minerals.
In exchange, it received things it lacked, such as timber, iron, silver, tin, and lead.
Goods were not paid for currency or coin, but rather were exchanged for other goods.

What people did for crafts

They might travel into towns and exchange some of their extra farm produce for such treasured objects.

People would do anything for these objects such as robbing
Gold was highly valued by Egyptians.
They thought gold was the work of gods since the color was bright like the sun
Some of the gold from the mines of from the desert and Nubia was sent abroad in from of it’s to foreign rulers like king of Babylon.
Manufactured goods and even princesses were sent in exchange to the pharaohs

Citations

Ancient Egypt George Hart 1990 Dorling Kindersley limited, London print

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