Pharos and Taxes | Trade | Farming |
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By collecting taxes.
How did the government get paid?
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the action of buying and selling goods and services
What is trade?
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Yes, they traded food(surplus food) for things that they didn't have surplus of.
Did they trade food?
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The high priest of every temple
What were one of the jobs of the Egypt kings?
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They traded gold,papyrus,inen and grain for cedar wood,ebony,copper,iron ivory and lapis lazuli.
What would people trade?
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Egyptians grew crops such as wheat, barley, vegetables, figs, melons, pomegranates and vines. They also grew flax which was made into linen. The most important crop they grew was grain.
What type of food did they grow?
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Pharaoh's collected taxes from their citizens to fund grain warehouses, building projects.
Why did the pharos tax people?
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Grain grew quickly in the healthy soil of the Nile, so the people had plenty to eat. With surplus they would be able to trade food for clothing and other things they needed the most.
Why would people trade?
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Farmers used this season to plant grain, barley and other fruits and vegetables. Also called the Season of the Harvest. Egyptians harvested the food they had planted, collected seeds to plant the following year and stored grain.
What did ancient Egyptian farmers do?
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By trading merchandise and surplus food.
How did the citizens gain and collect money?
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Yes,if the other tribe had something they needed they went back for it.
Would they trade the same group or tribe more than once?
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Tax farmers were contractors who bid on the taxes of a given area, and were compensated based on how much tax they collected
How did farmers in ancient Egypt pay their taxes?
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The taxes were used to stabilize and enrich society.
What would the king do with the money he collected from the taxes?
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They traded with Anatolia for tin and copper in order to make bronze. Mediterranean trading partners provided olive oil and other fine goods.
Who did they trade with?
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There is evidence of agricultural use and overuse of the land dating back to 8000 BCE.
When did farming start in ancient Egypt?
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