Daily Life- Housing
Cassidy Young
Lower Class
- The size of houses and amounts of furnishings varied between lower and upper class.
- If you were lower class, as you probably would have guessed, your house would be duller and smaller than upper class.
- As a poorer Egyptian, you would have little furniture as well.
- The most basic furniture the Egyptians had were tables and beds, which is for the most part the only furnishings in the poorer Egyptians homes.
Upper Class
- Important and wealthy citizens lived in bigger cities. These cities were the center of business.
- Also, your house would look nicer, for example it might be painted and plastered.
- Royals would have much nicer homes. They would be at least twice the size of others, and some even had multiple stories.
- Some decorations that wealthy and royal Egyptians had included, trees, flowers, bushes, and sometimes high walls around them.
Ways of Living
- The houses that were made of mud bricks were not as sturdy as the stone buildings.
- However, they still served their purpose nicely.
- The Egyptians created temples and tombs out of better quality materials than other buildings like their houses, in hope that they would last forever.
- Ancient Egyptian houses were mostly made out of mud bricks.
- The Egyptians made their houses facing the north so that the north wind could circulate through the houses.
The Building Process
- As I’ve already mentioned, the houses are made from the mud in the Nile.
- The mud was gathered using leather buckets, and then carried to the building site.
- Once there, the builders would add straw and pebbles to strengthen the mud. After this, it was poured into wooden frames to form the actual “bricks”.
- To dry the bricks, they would put them out in the sun. Once dried, the houses would typically be decorated.
Citations
(Image).http://www.crystalinks.com/egypthomes.html.9/16/15.Web
(Image).http://quatr.us/egypt/architecture/houses.htm.9/16/15.Web
Hart, George. Ancient Egypt. Alfred A Knopf, Inc. 1990. Print