What was their nutrition like?
As mentioned before for some people nutrition standards were not as high as hoped for. In the ancient times things worked through a ranking or hierarchy system. First would be the pharaohs, this meaning that all of the best goods would go to directly to the pharaoh. If you were lower down in this system you would still receive but not as much. Many people suffered from nutrition related diseases from not enough sufficient amounts of nutritional foods ingested. Most of the people suffering from nutritional deficiencies were the peasants as they barely earned enough to keep their family’s alive, where as those higher in the ranking system like priests, scribes or government officials were able to earn wages to keep their families alive.
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