Art History I -week 3 homework by Carla S Wallace

cwallace7 — 2015-10-09 12:43:42 UTC

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Egyptian Pyramids video (parts 1-5)

cwallace7 — 2015-10-09 12:50:42 UTC

4. Watch the videos and answer at least one of the following:

1.Would you describe the workers who built the pyramids as slave laborers? Why or why not?

2. What were the main tools used? describe tools of methods:

3. How or why were the positions of the stars important to the afterlife ot to the construction of the pyramids?

5.

cwallace7 — 2015-10-09 12:58:32 UTC

Brianna Kazmierzak

briannakaz — 2016-01-15 16:45:49 UTC

The workers who built the pyramids were not slaved laborers. Egypt had an abundance of slaves, but in order to build the pyramids, they needed men of adequate physique. Unlike slaves, who were most likely given a minimal amount of food, these workers were given a plentiful amount of bread and fruit. They were allowed to bathe in the evenings after working, and they got every tenth day off from work. Things they needed, they were given. This wouldn't be the case for slaves.

Jordan Lawes

2016-01-18 19:48:28 UTC

I don't believe the workers are slaves because they were well fed and were even given days off. I also don't think were slaves because, unlike slaves who were weak and malnourished, the people working on the pyramids needed to be strong and healthy.

Amy Hill

2016-01-20 01:42:13 UTC

Copper chisels and granite hammers were the tools to cut the limestone blocks. They had groups of men to keep the chisels sharp. Copper was the hardest metal known to the Egyptians, but a 100 blows or so and the copper chisel would be blunt. A man would take the blunt chisel and soften it in the fire, reshape the tip, then temperate in water before going back into use. Then there was a group that just brought water and fire wood to the chisel sharpeners. They were very organized in the production of the pyramid.

Miranda Phillips

2016-01-22 23:47:10 UTC

The Egyptians had noticed how the sky would seem to move and that one spot in particular, a dark spot surrounded by stars, would not. They believed that this spot was eternal & more specifically the location of heaven & they called the stars surrounding it the indestructible's. Using a plumb bob they used to align with the stars, they determined the layout for the construction of the pyramids. They believed aligning it to heaven created a resurrection machine.

Jody Gillenwater

2016-01-23 16:21:30 UTC

How or why were the positions of the stars important to the afterlife ot to the construction of the pyramids?

The Egyptians measured everything by the stars. The ancient Egyptians believed that the gods descended from the belt of Orion (the constellation) and Sirius (the brightest star in the sky) and that death was the beginning of the journey to their eternal life. The center of the pyramid, the great chamber and the sarcophagus all aligned with theses stars were the starting point to the

journey to the afterlife. The King’s chamber aligned with Orion and the Queen’s with Sirius and allowed them to pass between the physical world and the afterlife.

Halie Vertrees

2016-01-25 02:58:14 UTC

I don't believe that the people who built the pyramids were slave laborers because the workers had to be healthy and strong. The slaves that they had were basically malnourished compared to the workers. The Egyptians fed the workers with bread and fruits to maintain a healthy work force. If you worked you received everything you wanted, even the fire wood in the evening is what the video said. Which that made me think about the privileges that we have today.

Stephen Broyles

2016-01-25 21:12:04 UTC

None were slaves Egypt had no real need for slaves because of the Nile. The men that were selected to construct the pyramids were in good shape. They were given much to eat, bread, fruit and even beer. It was all brought to them, unlike the life of a slave. They even got to bathe and even had days off.If you worked you got anything you wanted. These men were not slaves, they were specialists.

Taylor Bieschke

2016-01-26 14:26:24 UTC

I believe the workers were slaves. they were forced laborers. They were well fed because the Egyptians didn't want the project to take longer than it needed to and they didn't want to have to find new workers after the malnourished ones died.

Caitlin Wehmeyer

2016-01-27 20:28:40 UTC

By the very definition of the word, to be a slave means to be a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. In ancient Egypt, men given power by the king would go through the country selecting able bodied men to work on the pyramids. While the men chosen were not owned, they were given no choice as to whether or not they wanted to commit their lives to the king’s tomb. When the men arrived, they were sheltered, given food, and time to bathe. As long as the men worked, they were treated well. A better term for these men would have been indentured servants seeing as how the men who worked on the pyramids were given a type of passage for their work.

Bayley McCary

2016-01-28 01:11:12 UTC

Some of the main tools used were copper chisels and hammers. Men were hired to keep the chisels sharp and usable.

Brittany Melford

2016-01-28 22:48:02 UTC

The people that built the pyramids were not slaves I don't believe because they had many people there to help build them. If you were a worker you were taken care of quite well actually. If they were slaves and barely rationed food they would be physically unfit to do such labor, they would be too malnourished to perform the duties given to them. There were also people that were given the job to keep the tools in proper condition. This consisted of a sort of hammer and copper chisels to shape the stone. Its crazy amazing to think what these people did, what they built and the impact it put on history.

Devan Winger

dwinger1 — 2016-01-31 19:02:23 UTC

1500 skilled men used to quarry, issued with a copper chizzes. Copper blunts easily so they had sharpeners and other specialists. Egyptians needed people for water and tinder for fires to use in the sharpening process. Every block of rock was marked by a
scribe. They used ropes, pulleys, sticks used to pry for leverage and sleds to pull enormous amounts of weight. Also used water in jugs and splashed in front and on the sled to slide easily over the sand and mud. With the use or ramps made of rock mortar the Egyptians achieved their goal to raise the stone to the
top of the pyramid and make them tall.

Samaya Malone

2016-02-02 17:00:39 UTC

I wouldn't call the men slaves because they were treated like an actual human and was fed actual good food and water unlike actual slaves were beat, extremely skinny, and treated like an animal. These men were strong and able- bodied, they were just regular builders and workers who got rewarded for what they done like we do today.

Mariah Mahoney

2016-02-05 15:50:44 UTC

Ancient Egypt, had a rich religious tradition which permeated every aspect of society. The practice of astronomy went beyond legend. Huge temples and pyramids were built with specific astronomical orientations. Astronomy had both religious and practical purposes.

Brooke Corder

2016-02-07 00:55:06 UTC

No the Egyptians were not slaves. Sure they did a lot of hardwork and had no choice in going to build pyramids or stay in their own village, but they had it pretty good there almost better than home. If you worked you got whatever you wanted; fruit, bread, beer, even fire wood in the evenings. At home you would have to catch or grow your food to eat, if you didn't you didn't eat. But here they always ate and all of the food was brought to them.

cartier

2016-02-09 15:46:23 UTC

i dont think they were slaves because slaves had rights. the workers were chosen. they were also given food and a chance to go home.

Kayla Speer

2016-02-23 17:44:27 UTC

The people that built the pyramids were not slaves. They were skilled workers. Slaves were treated poorly compared to the people that built the pyramids

Theo Wilson

2016-03-02 09:39:55 UTC

In Egypt, the culture was obsessed with stars and the study of astrology. They recognized that the entire night sky move around one central point - a black spot in the night sky. The pyramids are all aligned with stars to give a divine meaning. It was the beginning of the journey to the after life for the buried King and Queen, giving them a way for them to pass from the physical world to what comes after - a resting place in eternal afterlife.

Scott Major

2016-03-02 15:28:43 UTC

I don't believe the people who built the pyramid were slaves. The people who were needed to build them had to be strong and healthy. They needed to be able to afford nourishment and slaves were only given a small amount of nourishment.

CoreyAn Thomas

2016-03-02 22:12:52 UTC

The way I would describe the workers who built the pyramids not as slave workers. Because they were no ones property, but was skilled workers. They were free to build and gotten plenty of their needs met when it came to food and water including breaks. By that they needed plenty of strong men to build what they wanted and to do that they needed to make sure their health stayed up to shape. So I will say they were workers and not slave labors.

James Burnett

2016-03-03 00:12:11 UTC

The Egyptians do not seem like slaves to me, although Egypt had many slaves the work that they were doing required many men be in great condition, strong, healthy, etc. i think that it was a mixed bunch, though they needed strong men to help build the pyramids i could see them offering some slaves more freedoms and rights if they were to come help construct the massive pyramids.