The Role Of Slavery In Building The Pyramids

Francesca Rossi Slaves were involved in building the pyramids of Giza. Slaves are people that are forced to work for someone else and they do not get paid. In the following paragraph I will prove that slaves were involved in the construction of the pyramids by using evidence from three different docements. According to Document C, Egypt says, that if slaves built the pyramids then they wouldn’t have buried them so honorably.

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My first piece of evidence is he compelled all the egyptians to work for him. This is the very definition of slaver, slaver: A person forced into labor and has no freedom. This is what he doing so this supports that they were slaves and they were used to build the pyramids and they were wiped most likely and probably starved.

Slaves did built the pyramids for example in document C it states that when someone died they would put bread and beer in jars to give to people for after life usually people wouldn't think this is slaves because they wouldn't be sent to afterlife so honored with things. When people go to afterlife though not all people get sent with things for after life so how would we now this is slaves or not. Another good example would be in document A because it states that all egyptians were called “work men” the article never indicated that the work men were slaves or not aren't slaves work men too they are a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them that could be work men too. Again slaves did built the pyramids because

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Most of what Herodotus tells us is probably false. Scientists calculate that fewer men and fewer years were needed than Herodotus suggests. It also seems unlikely that slaves or complicated machines were needed for the pyramid construction. It isn't surprising that the Greek historian got it wrong. By the time he visited the site the great pyramid was already 20 centuries old, and much of the truth about it was shrouded in the mists of history.

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Much of the pyramids history is on the inside. One of the many things inside of the pyramids are (sometimes also known as mummies) are the bodies of the pharaohs. When pharaohs died in Ancient Egypt, they were believed to become gods. In order to properly put them at rest, they had to do a proper burial. To do this, people has to take out every organ of the body except for the heart. The heart is told to hold the soul, so they couldn’t remove it. After this, they stuff the body with cloth and sew the skin up. They put chemicals on the body to dry it out, and set for 40 days. The body was then covered in oils, precious stones, and amulets and bound with longs strips of cloth over and over again. A highly decorated mask was set on the face and wrapped again in cloth. This whole process took about 70

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is also recognized as the Pyramid of Khufu, Khufu's Pyramid and Pyramid of Cheops. It is the most significant and earliest structure in the world. This pyramid is the oldest of the three pyramids standing on the Giza Necropolis. It is also the largest of them all (Larry, 2000). This great pyramid is located on the northern edge of the Giza Plateau, which is 25 km outskirts, southwest of Cairo, Egypt. It is the only remaining standing monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Crystalink, 2011). It is said that the pyramid was built as the tomb for the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian King Khufu (known in Greek as Cheops).

Each block would to have been quarried or cut, and then hauled to the work site, and eventually placed in the correct position. The Egyptians had an amazing understanding of math, which helped them plan the erection of the pyramid, but the only driving force behind them was manpower. The actual people who built the pyramids were all voluntary workers; they were not slaves contrary to popular belief.

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