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Charger Trails

How I was successful as a team member and friend during charger trails

I was successful as a team member and friend because I helped my team complete the challenges. I helped my team find the right squares to step on during the aMAZEing maze, by showing them the path we already knew. I helped in the marble luge by holding and passing pipes to get the marble to it’s destination. And I helped in the hog call by trying to show people what word they had on the back of their chair and trying to match people with similar words.

 

Daily Life-Domestic Life

Marriage:

  • Marriage is a private matter
  • It happens when a man and a women set up a household together
  • Girls usually marry at 12, boys at 14
  • Marriages from the same family (i.e. cousins marrying) was not taboo

Fun and games

  • Children played with dolls, balls, and toy animals
  • Board games such as Senet and A Game Of Twenty Squares were played
  • Boys pretended to be soldiers, whilst girls often played games involving dancing
  • The Egyptians played marble games!

Social classes (from highest to lowest)

  • Pharaoh
  • Government officials
  • Soldiers
  • Scribes
  • Merchants
  • Artisans
  • Farmers
  • Slaves/servants

Women

  • Women had pretty much equal rights as men
  • Wives of the rich were responsible for running the household, childcare, and overseeing servants
  • Wives of paupers had to cook, clean, and other manual labor
  • A women’s social position depended on first her father’s social position, then her husbands

Citations:

  1. (Image) http://carlos.emory.edu/ ODYSSEY/EG2YPT/daily.html
  2. (Image) http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/index.html
  3. (Information) http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/index.html

 

Character Favs!!!

My favorite character is Kim. I like her because she is the one who started the garden. She seems to still care about her father, even though he is dead. She is very devoted to her plants, and wants them to succeed. She wants to impress her father’s spirit by growing them, because he was a farmer. She is very determined to make them grow, and seems like a nice person. That’s why Kim is my favorite Seedfolk.