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.