• scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments 
• scribes wrote in 2 different languages (hieroglyphs and  hierarchic) hieroglyphs are pictures symbols that looked like more or less letters   
• soldiers used wooden weapons (bows and arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots 

upper class known as the "white kilt class" priest, physicians engineers
 religious and political leader

pharaohs

• the political and religious leader of the Egyptian people holding the titles: Lord of the two lands and high priest of every temple 
• as lord of the two the pharaoh was the ruler of upper and lower Egypt he owed all land made laws. collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners 
• Hatsheput was a woman who served a pharaoh 

Cleopatra Vii also served as pharaoh much later (51-30 BC) more on her when we study Greece.    

• gods and goddesses 
• over 2000 god and goddesses they "controlled" the lives of the humans