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Ancient Egypt And Gender Roles In Ancient Greece

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Throughout the time period from 600 BCE to 600 CE the social hierarchy and gender roles within Greece has evolved from what it use to be to how it is now; the significance and changes of the evolution demonstrates the differences and similarity between Greece and Egypt both from ancient times and modern time. A similarity is that both Greece and Egypt has dismissed most gender roles that were followed during ancient times and their social classes has become more fair and humane; Two difference in the gender roles of the two civilizations is their treatment and view of men and women in their society during ancient times, another difference is the factor of each civilization that affected their social classes in ancient times.Many historical evidence that were analyze indicates the many changes, gender …show more content…

Although there were many civilizations within the time period of 600 BCE many of the civilizations were very different, two classic examples are Greece and Egyptian. Both Greece and Egypt had gender roles in ancient times but where they differ is the extent of the gender roles. Egypt was one of the very regions during this time period that didn’t overwhelm women when it came to gender roles. In Egypt society men were superior to women but women weren’t expected to bind to men and do everything they are told. In Egypt the men were expected to masculine especially by being leaders and doing work that were

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