PART ONE: Historians can learn alot from this text about the occupational and social structures of Middle Kingdom Egypt. These examples include: soldiers have the roughest times in Egypt, scribes were wanted, scribes were treated highly (as stated in the text), merchants are always very busy, famers work day and night, and ships' crews didn't even know if they were coming back home. Therefore, the only opion that was given was to be a scribe. Scribes had many advantages. The scribes were trusted by the king, they were wealthy, they dressed in the finest clothing, they owned horses, they had a boat on the river, they had a mansion built in their town, they had a powerful office given to them by the king, they had male and female slaves, and they would live forever through
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