The Seven Indicators Of Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Egypt was a complex civilization because ancient Egypt had all of the seven indicators. It had a government, a religion, a bunch of cities, specialized skills and jobs, they traded, they had different social classes, and they had a method of keeping records. Their method of keeping records were called hieroglyphs. They had slaves, a low class with farmers, a middle class with doctors, and a high class with priests, and their religion had hundreds of different gods and goddesses.

Well organized government played a major part of ancient Egypt.There were many important positions in ancient Egypt. The Pharaoh was the leader of ancient Egypt. The Pharaoh controlled the lives of the people, the religion, the court, and the economy. He had a job of creating a temple to worship in. Only certain people were born to be Pharaohs. His great wife’s children would be the heirs to the …show more content…
Skilled artisans were considered more powerful than common laborers. Skilled artisans learned from a master who guaranteed beautiful objects they made for the living and dead. Skilled carpenters made many products, from roofs to statues. They made made tools including saws, axes, wooden mallets, and much more. Jewelry makers made thick necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and many other pieces of jewelry. The rich people had gold jewelry. The people with less money had theirs made of copper. The copper jewelry would have colored glazes. The scribes were the few people in ancient Egypt who could read and write. It was a really hard job because there were hundreds of different hieroglyphs to remember. A scribe would write about the daily lives of the Egyptians and anything that was remarkable that was happening in ancient Egypt. They would write letters for the people who didn’t know how to write. They also would record the amount of crops harvested, and how much food the tomb workers