This video is for anyone curious about Ancient Egypt history: you will learn nine dirty ways people could have gotten rich under the pharaohs, and how wealth and power really worked along the Nile.
Imagine waking up in Ancient Egypt with nothing: no land, no gold, no powerful family. This History After Dark episode walks through nine dirty ways you could have tried to get filthy rich, from Pharaoh's court and the Nile estates to scribes, tax collectors, temple fortunes, the Punt trade, war, tomb robbers and the labor crews who built it all.
Chapters
00:00 Imagine waking up in Ancient Egypt with nothing
00:55 1. Get close to Pharaoh
02:18 2. Control the land
03:50 3. Become a scribe and control the numbers
05:30 4. Collect the taxes
07:10 5. Turn religion into a fortune
08:49 6. Profit from foreign trade
10:27 7. Go to war and come home rich
11:54 8. Rob the dead
13:58 9. Make other people build your fortune
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Music: "Sincerely" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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