Padilla Egypt Cartoon
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- No, please we have no food to give you
- Pharaoh
- Peasants give me food to pay your taxes!
- Government Officials
- Hello we are Government Officials, we advise the Pharaoh, collect taxes, and oversee the government!
- Priests
- Hello I am a Priest, I just finished putting a fellow pharaoh into his tomb! The mummification process takes about 70 days
- The pharaoh was on top of the social pyramid. They would collect taxes and would build pyramids.
- Scribes
- Hello we are scribes! We are very well paid and getting here was no easy task. We had to go to scribe school at 5 years old and we had to remember 700 hieroglyphics!
- We are government officials and we collect taxes and oversee the government. We have jewelry and perfume, and in our free time we have banquets.
- Artisans
- We are artisans and we are not very well respected, we work for 10 days until our weekend!
- Priest's main job is the mummification process which is turning the dead person into a mummy. In their daily life they couldn't eat fish or have body hair.
- Peasants
- We are peasants and we have the less amount of rights. We grow crops for the entire kingdom and lived in small houses.
- Scribes had many jobs, they would collect grain, census, taxes, record court, cases, laws, and numbers of soldiers. Scribes would start going to scribe school at 5 years old and needed to memorize 700 hieroglyphics!
- Artisans would have to decorate royal projects like tombs and temples, they also made clothing, jewelry, pots and tools. Artisans would work for 10 days until their weekend!
- Peasant would grow crops for the entire kingdom and build monuments designed by artisans. They would have small houses with no furniture and only ate fish and vegetables.
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