Egyptian Government Roles

Ancient Egyptians developed a writing system based on pictures, known as hieroglyphics. The difference between cuneiform and hieroglyphics was hieroglyphics stood not only for ideas or objects, but also sounds. According to document four, Egyptians also created papyrus, the first paper, in order to keep records.

In Ancient Egypt they would have the rich people on the top because they think that the rich people are the most important people there. Ancient Egypt would have governors and priests in the top because they were important to them. Below them were the artists and educated men. which included doctors, lawyers, teachers, and recordkeepers called scribes. Ancient Egypt would put the artists and educated men below from the rich people because they weren't that important to them and so they put the rich people in the top.

Pharaoh was thought to be one of the gods, but also human. He had control of the entire Egyptian kingdom. The Pharaoh was believed to be a God on earth and had the most power. His job was to make laws and keep order, He made sure that Egypt was not attacked or invaded by enemies.

He ruled either the upper half or lower half of egypt. The pharaoh was very powerful. Pharaohs were considered as gods! The pharaohs were a big part of government in egypt. Different crowns represent what the pharaoh rules.

The Pharaoh was the supreme leader not only of the government but also of the religion.

The government was very important to the egyptians because without it egypt would have been unorganized and unsafe. Mainly because with all the laws most of the robbers didn’t steal much things because they were scared of the laws. Another reason why it was important was because the army in egypt weren’t so bad.

This was done with a reed pen dipped in ink and then used on a paper made from the stem of a water plant called papyrus. Eventually the Ancient Egyptians tried to simplify hieroglyphics by using hieratic scripts by diverging hieroglyphics (Kraft). Hieratic scripts eventually became the norm when writing on papyrus. After their schooling was done, Scribes could then work for priests, pharaohs, or become a village scribe or a military

The people thought that the Pharaoh is the Egyptian sky god. The first class was the rich nobles but rich had most land and wealth. The second class were the artest ,doctors lawyers ,teacher and recordkeepers called scribes. The titd Classes were the lowest.

The vizors were the ones who watched over the land but did not make any decisions. They were like the chief overseer but it was the Pharaoh who made all of the decisions. Another important person in the government are the judges and magistrates. They were the ones who made laws and orders. Without judges and magistrates, Ancient Egypt wouldn't have happened because everything would have gotten out of hand.

The ancient Greeks first used the term hieroglyph to describe decorative characters that were often found on Egyptian monuments, ‘Hiero’ means ‘holy’ and ‘glyphs’ means ‘writings’. Hieroglyphs are written in long lines top to bottom and from right to left without the use punctuation or spaces. There is about 700 and 800 basic hieroglyph symbols, they are divided into two groups, phonograms (sounds) and ideograms (objects or ideas).

The people groups in ancient Egyptian were very different than our societies social groups today. Ancient Egyptians were grouped in a hierarchical system with the Pharaoh at the top and farmers and slaves at the bottom. The groups of people nearest to the top of society were the richest and most powerful. The Pharaoh was believed to be a god on earth and had the most power. He was responsible for making laws and keeping order. Ensuring that Egypt was not attacked or invaded by enemies and for keeping the gods happy so that the Nile flooded and there was a good harvest. The Vizier was the Pharaoh's chief advisor

The Ancient Egyptians government would be compared to as a kind of monarchy. Their King was called the Pharaoh and everyone in the civilization listened to everything that he said. Every Law and Business transaction went through this man. In our day we have only one leader but thousands of others that decide the laws of our country. We also have a vice president in America, if I had to pick a person to be the vice president of a Pharaoh in Egypt it would be the man called the vizier's. He was also well respected in the community and mostly was involved in the business aspect of the Pharaoh's job. The people of the Egyptian community really had no influence in the pharaoh's decisions, unlike America where we vote on all of our government officials. We also have people that don't allow our president to gain too much power, Unlike the Egyptians, where the Pharaoh had all the power in the community.

Hieroglyphs were written on tablets, temple and papyrus reed, the reeds were flattened, dried, and stuck together to make pages. The preponderance of the people of Ancient Egypt did not read or write. The scribes and priests were the ones who did all the writing.

How they wrote The way they wrote was called hieroglyphics which was a secret language if you looked at the pictures of the hieroglyphics were telling about you could learn a lot about the Egyptians . Hieroglyphics may look like just pictures but their letters and spindles . for example one hieroglyphics symbols looks like a cross with a loop on Top This symbols eternal life after death it was one of the few hieroglyphic symbols that could be understand by all people .Paper Most people thought that the Egyptians wrote on stone. Well that's true but they had a more portable way as well it was called paper you may have heard of it . They made the paper out of a thick plant called Prius

Ancient Egypt was a classified as a hierarchy. In ancient Egypt a hierarchy meant that people and groups were ranked according to status. Pharaoh’s and the royal family were first class. The second class was the aristocrats