Social hierarchy was very important to ancient Egyptians. It meant everything to them. At the very top of the hierarchy was the pharaoh. He was considered to be a god. There was very few woman pharaohs in ancient Egyptian history. Right below the pharaoh was the noble’s government officials and the priest. At this time priest and government officials where the same thing. The nobles where just people with a lot of money they did not do much other than that. After the priest and nobles are the soldiers. The soldiers are divided into two groups the chariot riders and the ground people. The people on the chariots are higher up then the people on the ground. After the solders on the hierarchy is the scribes. The scribes are the people that wrote things down. They would write down things like taxes and about historical things. After the scribes on the list where the merchants. They were people that would trade goods. They would make things or go to distant places and get things there and bring them back to sell. The group that is next are artisans these are the people that are artistic. These people create for a living they could be painters or they could be people that make clothing.  They make things and they would sell them to the merchants. Next are the farmers. Their name is self-explanatory. They are the people that will grow crops or they could raise animals. And the very bottom group is the slaves and servants. This group surprised me because they were not treated as bad as I thought they would have been. In America we treated our slaves ten times worst then they treated there slaves. I’m not saying that slavery is bad it is very bad but it was surprised I would have thought that Egypt would have treated them worst.

If there was no Nile there would not have been an Egypt. Everything there is based around the Nile. Even modern day Egypt is based around the Nile. The ancient Egyptians would use if for their crops mainly. They made a system to water there crops. Without water you cannot grow so that is why life flourished there. Another thing they used the Nile was for transportation. Because they had the Nile that is why they made the sail boat. So they could use the Nile for transportation. They would follow the river north. Then they would use their sails to catch the wind. And with wind power they would travel down the stream. Another thing they used the river for is the soil. The river would flood and leave behind soil. And this soil is some of the most fertile soil in the world. Without the Nile there would be no life there at all.