Ancient Egypt's Role In The Caste System
Jonathan Harper, Jarred Moffitt
Shakir Ghazi
Humanities 1
12 November, 2017
In many caste system civilizations, the type of food you had was determined on your class in societies. These systems, like the one in Ancient Egypt, play a large role in the population's life. Position in the caste system determined what people ate. Even though the main job was farming people had different amounts and or type of food. Common folk in Ancient Egypt mainly ate bread and beer, while higher classes ate wine, grapes and meat. Egyptians did not have the best farming environment or a lot of meat sources thus the reason why Egypt was big on trading with other civilizations.
The main grain grown in Egypt was emmer, “emmer was used to make both their bread and beer” (Mazerall). Bread and beer were the main foods eaten in ancient Egypt. Thanks to carbon dating, scientists can determine other foods that were consumed by ancient Egyptians. Carbon dating has been able to tell us that “ancient Egyptians kept relatively vegetarian diets” (Mazerall). Egypt’s proximity to the …show more content…
Most people had very limited amounts of meat and “received meat supplies mostly on special festive occasions” (Reshafim). The small amounts of meat caused many people to hunt animals and gather their own fruits. While the common people worked hard to barely get by, “the affluent certainly knew how to live it up: Meat, water fowls, vegetables, fruit, and wine were part of their diet” (Reshafim).
Egyptians didn’t have a varied diet but they used what they had in many ways. The staple foods of ancient Egypt were bread and beer. People are the bread in different ways, “it was sweetened with dates, honey, and five” (Donn). Egyptians understood how to take what the had and find as many uses for it as possible. This wasn’t the only use for dates, Egyptians also used dates to make a nonalcoholic
Shakir Ghazi
Humanities 1
12 November, 2017
In many caste system civilizations, the type of food you had was determined on your class in societies. These systems, like the one in Ancient Egypt, play a large role in the population's life. Position in the caste system determined what people ate. Even though the main job was farming people had different amounts and or type of food. Common folk in Ancient Egypt mainly ate bread and beer, while higher classes ate wine, grapes and meat. Egyptians did not have the best farming environment or a lot of meat sources thus the reason why Egypt was big on trading with other civilizations.
The main grain grown in Egypt was emmer, “emmer was used to make both their bread and beer” (Mazerall). Bread and beer were the main foods eaten in ancient Egypt. Thanks to carbon dating, scientists can determine other foods that were consumed by ancient Egyptians. Carbon dating has been able to tell us that “ancient Egyptians kept relatively vegetarian diets” (Mazerall). Egypt’s proximity to the …show more content…
Most people had very limited amounts of meat and “received meat supplies mostly on special festive occasions” (Reshafim). The small amounts of meat caused many people to hunt animals and gather their own fruits. While the common people worked hard to barely get by, “the affluent certainly knew how to live it up: Meat, water fowls, vegetables, fruit, and wine were part of their diet” (Reshafim).
Egyptians didn’t have a varied diet but they used what they had in many ways. The staple foods of ancient Egypt were bread and beer. People are the bread in different ways, “it was sweetened with dates, honey, and five” (Donn). Egyptians understood how to take what the had and find as many uses for it as possible. This wasn’t the only use for dates, Egyptians also used dates to make a nonalcoholic