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Charles XII, question for you about ANCIENT EGYPT
| galvanic temple | 01/27/20 |
| cracking metal weed whacker | 01/27/20 |
| galvanic temple | 01/27/20 |
| cracking metal weed whacker | 01/27/20 |
| Exciting black woman patrolman | 01/27/20 |
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Date: January 27th, 2020 12:44 PM Author: galvanic temple just how kooky was day-to-day life for the typical ancient egyptian? seems like we probably dramatically overestimate the kookiness in the same way things nowadays would look pretty bizarre to a future explorer if the only things that survived our culture were churches, monuments, and religious iconography (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431044&forum_id=2#39496092) |
Date: January 27th, 2020 12:49 PM Author: cracking metal weed whacker It really wasn't kooky at all. As stylized and ritualistic as everything seems, all that stuff reflects only what want happening among a tiny sliver of elites, and only during particular times. Egypt went through multiple dark ages where people forgot a bunch of stuff. Dynasties died out and in some cases proles ended up becoming Pharaoh and establishing new dynasties.
The wackiest thing about Egyptians was their belief in the afterlife and all the customs that developed around that. But hyperfocusing on that aspect of their society doesn't shed much light on how ordinary people lived. |
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Date: January 27th, 2020 12:51 PM Author: galvanic temple still must have been 180 to walk around a bunch of chill necropoli and pyramids and stuff that was already 1000s of years old and be like "huh would you look at that" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431044&forum_id=2#39496128) |
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Date: January 27th, 2020 12:54 PM Author: cracking metal weed whacker A lot of those tombs got robbed right after they were constructed, sometimes by people involved in constructing them since they knew all the secret passages. Then you had periods where temples and shit got named after subsequent Pharaohs who lived centuries later, after everyone had forgotten who really built them. The pyramids were built during the Old Kingdom, and future generations were just as mystified by them as anyone else. The sphinx got covered with sand over time and had to be excavated like 1500 years later. The prole goy who led the excavation ended up becoming Pharaoh as a result. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431044&forum_id=2#39496146) |
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Date: January 27th, 2020 3:49 PM Author: Exciting black woman patrolman Life for the average Egyptian peasant was shockingly static for a very long period of time. Prior to the building of the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian life revolved around the three seasons: Flooding, planting, harvesting, repeat. Agriculture was intensive, high yield, and done by manual labor. Their homes were made of mud brick. Egyptian peasants from 3000 BC to 1900 AD would probably all have an awful lot in common.
That said, definitely plenty of kooky stuff just to see. The monuments we see today are remnants of many other building projects in ancient Egypt. And since they all required tremendous amounts of manpower to build, a large number of Egyptians were involved in erecting those monuments. This worked through the nature of Egyptian life: During the flood season, there wasn't much to do besides build gargantuan temples to honor the divine pharaoh. So for hundreds of thousands of Egyptian peasants, life was a steady pattern of working for 8 months, and then going to church for 4 months, essentially. |