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= The Different Roles of the Upper and Lower Classes in Ancient Egypt. = The roles in society were different depending on the class that you come from (upper and lower) and what sex you were (male or female). The jobs that Egyptians would do were thing like.

**The hierachy of ancient Egypt**:
-The Pharaoh __(royal)__ -The Royal Wife __(royal)__ -Members of the immediate Royal Family __(royal)__ -Vizier __(upper class)__ -Nobal men __(upper class)__ -Army Officers __(upper class)__ -Court Officials __(upper class)__ -Priests, Priestesses and Doctors __(middle/upper class)__ -Scribes and Artists/ Craftsmen __(middle class)__ -Foot soldiers __(lower class)__ -Fishermen and Farmers __(lower class)__ -Slaves and Tomb Builders __(lower class)__

- Constuction of the pyramids; Slaves would work to make huge blocks of hard store and pull then up the pyramid to the level that they were building on. Then they would yank the blocks into place (the wiegh of the blocks would be around 2.5 tones)! - Government of the country; There were a lot of government jobs, the Vizier was the head of the government (just under the pharaoh). He (never a women) was the same as the Prime Minister in Australia. He was responsible for the running of the court and the jobs that it envoled like...Law enforcement people, Judges, Tax collectors, and people who counted the level of the Nile river. The people who counted the level of the Nile river would indicate the possibility of floods and famine. - Scribes; Scribes wrote documants and texts. They also had to teach (had the role of a teacher) and they wrote speels that would be buried with someone. These spells were from the book of the dead! This was a high paid job because not many people could read and write. - Priests; Priests looked after temples and places of worship. They also had to take care of religious ceremonies. They observed the Nile to see howte gods like their way of life (the Egyptian way of life). - Engeneers and Architects; They took on major building projects. - People in the army; This job let people in the lower classes of Egypt to become more respected in society! The most common was being a foot soldiors and/or charioteers. - Entertainers; These entertainers sometime danced on the streets or in festivals (religious). The rich Egyptians would get privet entertainers to put on shows in their homes! - Manual laborers; Slaves were manual laborers as wellas farmers and fisher men who provided Egypt with food. Farmers could grazes animals or grow fruit and vegetables.

__The difference between now and in ancient Egypt.__
The differences between now and ancient Egypt are that the ancient Egptians had a lot of classes and one could easily tell what class you were from! Now it's hard for someone to tell. Ancient Egypt was full of people and jobs; everyone had something to do. Many children followed in their parents foot steps. In 2011 we still sometimes follow in the foot stwps of our perants, but not as much as before! We can marry people from differnt classes (rich and poor), before they couldn't do things like that. Lower class people married lower class people and uper class people only married upper class families. We are a lot better of now then in the times of ancient Egypt!

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