Social Pyramid

The Social Pyramid was divided up into different social classes. At the top of the Social Pyramid was Pharaoh. They were gods chosen to lead the people and preserve order. Priests are the second most important people in Egypt, they highly powerful, just under the pharaoh. They carry out the sacred rituals at each temple and they control the temples of the G-d’s.
Officials collect taxes and run system, they held government officials. They are 3rd in the system. The Egyptian army was well organized and included infantry and chariot troops. The infantry, or foot soldiers, carried spears, shields, and battle axes. During peace time, soldiers worked on government projects such as digging irrigation canals for farming, or transporting stone for the king's tomb. Soldiers are 4th in the system. Scribes are next in the social Pyramid. They studied for many years to learn to read and write. Scribes had great opportunities as accountants, priests, doctors, and government officials of all sorts. Artisans were skilled workers, stonemasons, carpenters, painters.
They are 6th form the top of the pyramid. Slaves worked in the household or in the fields. They do not get payed a wage as they belong to there master. The slaves did not have any power at all. They were owned by their masters and had no control over their own lives.

Egyptian Odyssey