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Everyday in Egypt, common people |
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My Info: look, its here! |
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Egypt for some is mistery, for some pyramids, for some great pharaons...but for some... people who built it |
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[email protected] |
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Connections |
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Hi, dear friednds! How do you do today? This is a page which as you already can see, is not properly ready yet. But just dont worry or get angry because it will be ready and soon. Then you will be able to read here some very usefull information and of course, I DO HOPE THAT YOU WILL be so nice and signe my guestbook. There you will find perhaps questions interesting exacly for you, well... just go there and signe in anyway it is for free :)! |
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Using the land-road over the Suec pass, Egypt had very good connections with western Asia.
Sorrounding deserts protevted Egypt from authority of other cultures and from the conquerors. |
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If you are interested in Egypt and its history or some particular parts of its history, e-mail me NOW because you might like what I will tell you! |
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Egyptians called their own land "Kamet" which means "Black land". That's because it was very productive and the Grate Hapi (god of Nile's overflow) looked after that. But the sorraunding deserts they called "Red land", they thought it was an enemy for people, there was ruling the severe and the disastrous god Set - the god of other lands. |
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Rythm of the life |
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The life and the rythm of egyptian life was devided in three periods: "overflow" (the end of june-begginig of septembre), "emersion of the fields from water" (octobre-february), "dryness" (february or martch-may or june). Because people couldn't change these rythms, it made a sense of stability. |
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Laws and punishments or Punishment as a Mirror of Society |
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Maat - a great goddes in Ancient Egypt, who was a symbol of justice and truth, she told people to help each other and not to be cruel, to be helpful to the weaker and the sick people, told to me cultural, with a good behaviour and to be modest. But, ofcourse, it wasn't always that way...
A name (word) had an enormous power in Ancient Egypt. Exacly the NAME !!! Each living creature was "together" with its name forever, a name of a human was a kind of dubble, the "copy" of the human, the second one. But they two together (name and the human) have a magical power. From this point there was the most dangerous punishment in Egypt - not only to be punished by death but also to take man's name away (or woman's), to delete it from the tomb (or wherever the person lys after death). This is the way how the person's soul, his spirit was killed, he could't live for the eternity. from this, there is an egyptian saying "Say my nema and I will live again!".
During the 4.th dinasty created laws were about the rights of peasants (farmers) and their duties, there also were mentioned the quantities of social works (how much it should be done). For example, there was some description found on a princess's tomb - it told about some event that court had to decide about, that someone didn't pay taxes. In the Old Kingdom there appeared some individual rights, first of all, property rights. Law also said that each egyptian could merry only 1 wife. Wemen in Egypt were alike men, they also had rights on property and thus on the making contracts, deals. Properties of the father could be inharited both by the sons and by the daughters. There also was a law that said, each egyptian each year must register and pay the "head" tax in the region where he lived, if he didn't do that, he was punished by death, quite easy and simple, as you can see.
Corruption? Oh, it was already then! You could "buy" the court for example! During the 3.Dinasty in the government of Egypt there was TO BE CONTINUED (TOMORROW OR TODAY, READ THE REST :) ) |
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WEMEN IN EGYPT |
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As the Greek Herodot said "wemen in pharaos land are employed in trade and attend the market, while the men stay at home and do the weaving." Well, of course pour old man was not completely right because he made a false generalisation, althaugh one can understand him, wemen in Egypt at that time had much more rights than in any other place of the earth! In the New Kingdom a woman was regarded as an independent legal entity, she could act on her own behalf in court and even aigainst her own father. They had their OWN property and could do with it whatever they liked. One woman in her will sais "I am a free woman in Pharao's country and I will leave my property to those children that stood by me when I got old. I raised 8 children." Also this concernes female slaves. They had a great value, because if they were healthy and beautiful their cost was twice as much as the one of male slave. Still, there was no written law in Ancient Egypt, thus it is not known wether wemen really used all the rights they had. Historians also know very few information about the wives of farmers, who belonged to the so called rural population, although they made 90 % of the whole egyptian female population. In any case, wemen were not completely egual to men, because they had almost none political power (exept of course the queens and those who could exersise their power on men - indirectly), the girls were not tought to write, there was no such thing as female scribe.There were also wemen who lived alone but there is almost nothing known about their social status or anything. Widows must have had very difficult lifes, because many men helped them. As they didn't write, there is nowhere to be found their values, thaughts or something directly connected with them, only men sometimes wrote down that the wemen had said. TO BE CONTINUED. |
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