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The elite core of skilled workers and scribes were paid in kind as money had not been invented. They too would got their food, clothing, vast quantities of beer, a town to live in and even health care.

As for the slaves only food and shelter, no clothes, as a slave you went naked.

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they didn't get paid only food and shelter, not even clothes as slaves they went naked

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What was the purpose of building pyramids?

Pyramids were built primarily as tombs for pharaohs and other high-ranking individuals in ancient Egypt. They were intended to protect the deceased ruler's body and possessions for the afterlife and to serve as a monument to their power and legacy.


How are pharaohs a part of the pyramids?

Not building pyramids. Social pyramids. The social pyramid shows all rank of people in Egypt


How the Nile helped the pyramids?

Basically - no Nile, no Egypt, no pyramids. It provided water for transport and to sustain the people building the pyramids.


What do slaves get paid?

Food, water, shelter and clothes but no money. If you worked on building the pyramids you went naked.


When did people stop building pyramids?

After the old and middle kingdoms.


What kind of jobs did the slaves have in ancient Egypt?

Building pyrmaids- but sources now say that they volunterred to build the pyramids and get get paid with food


How is building the pyramids?

no


Did the people that built the pyramids get paid in anyway by the pharaoh?

Yes in food clothing and housing


Why did Egypt stop building pyramids Was it because the Nile river stopped flooding and the people migrated and died?

The high cost of building huge pyramids, grave robbery, loss of centralized authority, etc., were some reasons why the Egyptians stopped building pyramids. The later Egyptians built smaller sized pyramids which got damaged very soon.


How did the building of the pyramids lead to advance in science and mathematics?

How did the building of the pyramids lead to advances in mathematics


Did heroditus see the building of the pyramids?

No The pyramids were already 2000 years old when he visited the pyramids in 450BC.


What is building device helpful for building pyramids?

Thousands of slaves