Once the bus has picked us up we will drive to the Great pyramids of Giza it should take us 10-20 minutes. The great pyramids of Giza were constructed circa 2560 bce for the Pharo Sneferu his two sons Khufh and Menkaure. The pyramids were located on the west side of the Nile and there is a canal between the Nile and the Pyramids, and took 20 years two build. The pyramids towered over all the other buildings standing 150m high until the 19th century. We will be discovering why the pyramids connect to Art and architecture as well as social classes. The great Pyramids of Giza are one of the worlds most recognised pieces of architecture in the world. The Ancient Egyptians were skilled workers, we can say this because slaves built the pyramids, not workers that specilize in that area of work. Slaves had to build the bricks and carry them up the the pyramid, this process got longer as the pyramid got higher, the bricks usually weight 1 to 20 tonnes, the slaves had to do this an of 2,300,500, this is just an estimate but it was probably somewhere about that, this was all done for one man the pharaoh. The ancient Egyptians were the first to use stones to built a structure that big. Thanks to that we can go and see them today. Slaves were forced to build the pyramids because they were at the bottom the the social pyramid, followers by farmers and unskilled workers, the. Soldiers and scribes, the. Priests and nobles, then government officials, then finally the Pharaoh.
After lunch we will enjoy a camel ride down the Nile to farms, where we will discuss Job Specilazation and public works. Farms were located beside the Nile because the Nile provides fertile and soft land for farms. Farmers were near the bottom of the social pyramid, but it was a job the got an okay pay. Farmers were usually born and raised by farmer parents, it was not really a job you applied for. Farms could be passed down from the father to son here generations. There were acres of land devoted to farming and there were laws on who could go on farms and who could not. On farms you would usually find wheat, flax and papyrus. Wheat was farmed and sent off to a baker where it was turned into bead and then sold as food for the public. Flax was grown to be sent of to craftspeople where it was made in to a cloth and eventually clothes, whitch were then sold to the public. Papyrus was grown to be sent of to craftspeople to be turned in to paper and then sold.
After lunch we will enjoy a camel ride down the Nile to farms, where we will discuss Job Specilazation and public works. Farms were located beside the Nile because the Nile provides fertile and soft land for farms. Farmers were near the bottom of the social pyramid, but it was a job the got an okay pay. Farmers were usually born and raised by farmer parents, it was not really a job you applied for. Farms could be passed down from the father to son here generations. There were acres of land devoted to farming and there were laws on who could go on farms and who could not. On farms you would usually find wheat, flax and papyrus. Wheat was farmed and sent off to a baker where it was turned into bead and then sold as food for the public. Flax was grown to be sent of to craftspeople where it was made in to a cloth and eventually clothes, whitch were then sold to the public. Papyrus was grown to be sent of to craftspeople to be turned in to paper and then sold.