Crafts and Trade

Kate
First Period
Sept. 9, 2009

Crafts people were highly skilled and well respected

• They created items for pharaohs and temples

• They made items with gold, stones, bronze, glass and clay

• Villagers would exchange food for the items

• They were sandal makers, stone carvers, leather workers,

metalworkers, sculptors, weavers, carpenters, jewelers,
potters and painters.
To see this image in its
original location
http://www.akhet.co.uk/je
wel.htm
Crafts people had high
status in the society

• They were taught alongside the royal

family when they were very young

• The ones who worked for the royal family

lived much better than the ones who didn’t
To see this image in its original
• They were paid in food and other goods location
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/trade/
• Crafts people were mostly men

They traded crafts and other resources with the other empires

• Cites alongside the Nile were great places for trading

• The pharaoh controlled all the trading

• They traded goods such as grain, gold, copper, linen, gemstones, timber,
iron, silver, tin, lead, and other various minerals

• Goods were not paid for by coin, but by trade

Egyptians had trade ships

• Egyptian trade ships had no deck, except for small squares on either side

• Cargo was stored in the middle of the ships so it was easier to put on and
take off

• Farmers used trade to pay their taxes

CITATIONS
Websites
Trades, The British Museum- Ancient Egypt, The British Museum, 1999,
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/trade/home.html, 9-9-09
Jewelry, Akhet Egyptology, Google, 1997, http://www.akhet.co.uk/jewel.htm,
9-9-09
Books
Grant, Neil. The Egyptians. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Print.