HISTORY
THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND EGYPT 3200 BC500 BC
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Question
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were confined to the home
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used hieroglyphics to keep domestic and other records
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has less independence than other women
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had greater independence than women else where
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Detailed explanation-1: -Women typically worked around the home. They prepared food, cooked meals, cleaned the house, made clothing, and took care of the children. Poor women would help their husbands work the fields. Wealthier women would manage the servants or perhaps run a business of their own.
Detailed explanation-2: -While many positions of leadership were held by men, women could also wield great power. Some even rose to the highest offices in the land. Queens (i.e. a Pharaoh’s wife) played an important part in maintaining royal power. They were often identified with important goddesses like Hathor.
Detailed explanation-3: -They had equal rights to men with regards to the property and in court cases, but the average woman’s focus was on a traditional role as wife and mother. Women at the upper echelons of society could reach the same level as men, sometimes ruling the country and playing a prominent role in religious cults.
Detailed explanation-4: -Women could even take the most elevated position of Egyptian culture, pharaoh. A woman could become a pharaoh if her husband died while serving as pharaoh; she would serve as his successor. A woman could also own her own business and sell many things such as cosmetics, perfume, and clothing.