Warfare
Jane Sihm
Notes from Placard :
Questions from Topic Sentences:
- How does the military play an important role in Ancient Egypt?
- The military protects the people in Ancient Egypt.
- Have an army of full time soldiers.
- During wartime, mercenaries (paid soldiers from foreign lands) were paid to be part of the army.
- 1/10 of the workers in the temples were sent to fight during wartimes.
- The soldiers were divided up into groups, companies, and divisions.
- 200 foot soldiers = Company (A Captain led each company)
- 5000 men = division (A General or Lieutenant General led each division)
- Each division marched under a banner featuring their local god.
- What weapons did the Egyptians soldiers use in battle?
- The infantry (foot soldiers) used javelins, daggers, and short, curved, swords called Khopesh in battle.
- The infantry typical armor includes shields of rawhide and padded head caps. Some soldiers had bronze armor instead.
- Two soldiers could be on a chariot, a driver and an archer.
- Driver had a leather or bronze helmet and leather or bronze body armor and the archer was armed with a bow and arrow and javelins also with armor.
- The Driver drives the chariot and the archer shoots arrows from a moving platform.
- What jobs did the soldiers do when they weren’t at war?
- They dug irrigation canals
- Carry stone from the desert to build a pharaoh’s tomb
- Did lots of manual labor
[Image] http://www.britishmuseum.org/images/an20721_l.jpg. 9/16/15. Web.
[Image] http://www.touregypt.net/images/touregypt/weapons10.jpg. 9/16/15. Web.
