Domestic Life
Lily Finkelstein
- What does being married mean for most ancient Egyptians
- Married were 12-14 years old
- Never had a formal or religious ceremony
- A marriage was when a man and a women had a household
- Working persons house was about 14 by 40 feet
- You could get divorced and divorced people could get married again.
2.What is a woman’s social position?
- First fathers social status
- Latter when married husbands social status
- Upper class is a lot different than lower classes.
- Luxury and comfort show a rich man’s country house and townhouse.
- Were Women treated as well as men?
- Women from different classes were treated differently depending on different classes.
- Women could own property and were entitled to share equal in any inheritance left by a decreases people
- Each village and town of any size had a court called a kenbet. There were know attorneys so everyone had to speak for them self.
- Women were equal to men in the eyes of the law.
- What did kids do
- Children who didn’t go to school could take part in daily family activities.
- Children played leap frog, tug-a-war, and a board game called senet.
- Senet is a board game which adults and kids play, you would battle against the forces of evil to try to reach the underworld kingdom of a God called Osiris.
- Lot of kids died at 5 years old.