Domestic Life

Miles Ramee

What happened instead of a marriage in ancient Egypt?

* A women and a man started living together

* No Ceremony

* Couples could divorce which was when they stopped living together

* Divorced marriages were allowed to re-marry

What were the differences between upper and lower class women?

*Upper class women did no manual work

*Lower class women did the same jobs but also cooked, cleaned the house, and made clothes.

*The lower class sometimes worked in the fields.

What rights did women have?

*They could rent or buy property

*They could inherit money

*They could call charges against someone

*And were responsible for their own actions

Why were Egyptian children not required to go to school at a young age?

*Egyptian children typically died young

*They would only be accepted into society when they hit puberty

*They didn’t need experience at a job when they got married.

Image Citations

[Image]http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701778/ September, 16, 2015,Web.

[Image] http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptianwomen.html September, 16, 2015, Web.