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Daily Life
The ancient Egyptians were full of energy and life. They worked hard and spent their spare times with their friends and family. They were fascinated to musical tunes, parties, fishing, hunting, sailing etc. They lived in the narrow fertile banks of the Nile River. Each year the banks of the River Nile was flooded tremendously, due to which the banks of the river became fertile. The fertile land of the Nile valley was popularly known as "the Black Land" where as the desert around the Nile valley was famous as “the red land”.
Family Life: A happy family life was very important to each Egyptian. They used to believe that they were blessed with their little kids. They are affectionate about their children. Ancient Egyptian women and her childThe wealthy and noble family, however, used to take the help of slaves and servants to raise their children. Usually the couple without any child used to pray to the God for a baby in different ways. If they could not manage to get their own child, then adoption was the ultimate option for them.
Usually women had to obey their fathers or husbands but they had rights to carry out business deals, land acquisitions, legal cases etc. Even though the women used to perform most of the house hold activities, such as, raising their children, preparing food, fetching water etc, but they also used to earn money by dancing, singing and playing music, and making perfumes.
Egyptian boys learned how to make crafts or involve in trade affairs from their fathers or artisans and girls at the same time were good at learning house hold duties from their mothers. In affluent families, boys were sent to school at an age of seven to study about religion. They used to spend time in schools for being familiar with reading and writing.
Marriage: The average age for an Egyptian girl to be married was 12 years. Boys, however, used to get married at an older age. In noble or wealthy families, the girls were a bit older when they got married. Generally a common man had a single wife. The wealthy man, nevertheless, had many.
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