Marriage:
- Marriage is a private matter
- It happens when a man and a women set up a household together
- Girls usually marry at 12, boys at 14
- Marriages from the same family (i.e. cousins marrying) was not taboo
Fun and games
- Children played with dolls, balls, and toy animals
- Board games such as Senet and A Game Of Twenty Squares were played
- Boys pretended to be soldiers, whilst girls often played games involving dancing
- The Egyptians played marble games!
Social classes (from highest to lowest)
- Pharaoh
- Government officials
- Soldiers
- Scribes
- Merchants
- Artisans
- Farmers
- Slaves/servants
Women
- Women had pretty much equal rights as men
- Wives of the rich were responsible for running the household, childcare, and overseeing servants
- Wives of paupers had to cook, clean, and other manual labor
- A women’s social position depended on first her father’s social position, then her husbands
Citations:
- (Image) http://carlos.emory.edu/ ODYSSEY/EG2YPT/daily.html
- (Image) http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/index.html
- (Information) http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/index.html