Daily Life: Crafts and Trade

Neha Sharma

Arts and Pharaohs

• Most craftspeople created their works of arts for the pharaohs, for wealthy families, or for temples.
• They often went to school in the pharaoh’s palace, along with children of royalty.
• Artists who worked for the royal and wealthy families, or for the temples, were well paid in food and other goods.
• Those who became master craftspeople held a high status in society.

 

Life of an Artist what They Make and Use

• Egyptians used simple tools produce various of crafts
• Crafts people worked as sandal makers, stone carvers, leather workers, metal workers, sculptors, weavers, carpenters, jewelers, potters, and painters.
• They made jewelry with gold an stone, created highly finished furniture, and produced statues made of bronze, glass, and stone.
• Most craftspeople were men, and many of were taught from very young.
• Many of them lived much better than ordinary members of the low class

 

Trading in General

• Ancient Egyptians traded their crafts and resources with other countries and empires near and far.
• Cities and towns near the Nile River were great trade centers.
• Trade was controlled by the pharaohs.
• Egypt traded goods such as grain, copper, gold, linen, gemstones, and various minerals.
• In exchange, it received things it lacked, such as timber, iron, silver, tin, and lead.
• Goods were not paid for currency or coin, but rather were exchanged for other goods.

What people did for crafts

• Sometimes common villagers were able to obtain these finely made objects.
• They might travel into towns and exchange some of their extra farm produce for such treasured objects.
• People would do anything for these objects such as robbing
• Gold was highly valued by Egyptians.
• They thought gold was the work of gods since the color was bright like the sun
• Some of the gold from the mines of from the desert and Nubia was sent abroad in from of it’s to foreign rulers like king of Babylon.
• Manufactured goods and even princesses were sent in exchange to the pharaohs

 

 

Citations

(Images)http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/psusennes_mask.jpg. 9/16/15.Web.

 

 

(Images)http://www.ducksters.com/history/art/ancient_egypt_bust_of_nefertiti_sm.jpg.9/16/15.Web.

 

 

 

Ancient Egypt George Hart 1990 Dorling Kindersley limited, London print