what kind of people in Egypt built the pyramids? Slaves ,rich, poor,?

Answer 1

Well the people who buit the pyramids were poor but they were not slaves they felt that it wast their duty to the gods to build them.

Answer 2

I saw a documentary on TV a few years ago, which showed that the builders were not slaves, but paid workers and craftsmen. The Pharaoh's recruiters would visit towns and villages down the Nile and ask for workers for the great constructions. All villages were required to supply workers, so perhaps there was an element of conscription, but it was steady paid work over several years, and I imagine there was no shortage of men from poor families willing to do it. The movie depictions of slaves being whipped are a gross exaggeration, as there was no shortage of men and beasts of burden, such as oxen and horses to pull heavy loads. Why whip 50 perfectly useful men into pulling a heavy load, when you could use twenty oxen to do the same job quicker?

Answer 3

The slaves and poor built the pyramids. The medium to upper class (slave drivers) oversaw the constructions. And the rich commissioned and designed the pyramids.

Answer 4

Slaves

Answer 5

i think it was mostly slaves that built the pyramids and while i'm not sure about this but based on religious stories or movies of moses i would say that most of the slaves were probably Hebrew.

Answer 6

the individuals that supposedly built the pyramids were not slaves, they were not the rich or the poor, but rather the middle class. they were paid, mostly in foodstufs such as beer and other products.

Answer 7

According to the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, who visited Egypt himself in the 5th century BC, these pyramids were built by "all the subjects" of the ancient Egyptian pharoah (king), Cheops:

"According to the account of Herodotus, the occasion of erection of this great work was caprice of a king, Cheops, who is supposed to be the Suphis of Syncellus, and Chembes of Diodorus. This king was a tyrant of very worst kind; he closed all the temples throughout the Egypt, forbade every sort of religious observance, and forced all his subjects to labor for him as he pleased."

Answer 8

The pharoahs designed and ordered the pyramids, and forced the lowest social classes to actually do the physical labor. (most likely slaves.)

Answer 9

I read somewhere somewhere that the persians found some kind of albinos living in Egypt when they got there. It is written in some of their ancient writings. But the face of Egypt hasn't changed much in the last 5,000 years.

Answer 10

slaves. if you read the history books it took 5000 slaves to move one limestone block for the great peramid. the rich backthen would never even thing about doing work like that come one would you see a millionair do that i think not