Transcript Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt
Food and drink
Food
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Bread “bread eaters”.
Fish ducks, geese, desert hares, oryx (a type of large
antelope) near the nile.
Cutlery
Meat, rich people
most sorts of fish except one species, which was sacred
because it was associated with the god Osiris.
The Ancient Egyptians grew peas and beans, lentils,
onions, garlic, radishes, turnips, peppers, leeks, lettuces
and cucumbers, and also many herbs such as aniseed,
fennel, mustard, thyme, coriander, cumin and dill.
How many seasons were there in
Ancient Egypt?
Akhet - the inundation (June-September): The Flooding Season.
No farming was done at this time, as all the fields were flooded. Instead, many farmers
worked for the pharaoh (king), building pyramids or temples. Some of the time was
spent mending their tools and looking after animals.
Peret (October-February): The Growing Season.
In October the floodwaters receded, leaving behind a layer of rich, black soil. This fertile
soil was then ploughed and seeded.
Shemu (March-May): The Harvesting Season.
The fully grown crops had to be cut down (harvested) and removed before the Nile
flooded again. It was also the time to repair the canals ready for the next flood.
How did they harvest the corn?
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1st Reapers cut the ripe corn
with wooden sickles edged
with sharp flints.
2 Women and children
followed behind the reapers to
collect any fallen ears of corn.
3rd Cattle were used to
trampled over the cut corn to
remove the grain from the
ears.
4th Then the grain was tossed
into the air so the breeze blew
the light useless chaff away.
Drink
beer and wine
The rich drank wine and
almost everybody else
drank beer. When
somebody have a party, it
was called a "House of
Beer." To make their beer,
the Ancient Egyptians
would half bake loaves of
barley, then crumble it
into barley and water
How did they lift water from
canals on to the land?
To lift the water from the canal they used
a shaduf. A shaduf is a large pole balanced
on a crossbeam, a rope and bucket on one
end and a heavy counter weight at the
other. By pulling the rope it lowered the
bucket into the canal. The farmer then
raised the bucket of water by pulling down
on the weight. He then swung the pole
around and emptied the bucket onto the
field.
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What did they call
the Egyptians who
ate a lot of bread?
Name three things
they eat.
Name two things
they drank.
Explain how they
harvest the corn.
Explain how they
lift the water from
the canal.