Comparing Family Roles in Ancient Egypt and Rome

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Family roles in ancient Egypt and ancient Rome were a very important part of life.
Ancient Rome had a lot of family roles in their life as well as Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome do their family roles in different ways. They also were alike in many types of ways and we even have some things now. When they lived in ancient times it was probably hard for them. Back in the day, they had a lot of stuff that was difficult. A long time ago it was a very sad time in life. We should appreciate how we live today compared to how they lived back in the day.
The ancient Romans had many types of family roles and they were used in everyday life. The family of Rome was the main part of the Roman Society. Families had siblings or relatives that lived with them as well as the parents and kids. In the Roman family, the father was the one that lead mostly and they had power of things and they could control mostly everything. The father in ancient Rome had a lot of rights. They were technically the king of the family. Rome’s head of the family was the oldest dad or men and they were called the paterfamilias. Raising the kids was the mom's job in ancient history. The mother of the family was called the materfamilias. In Roman life if the kids did not …show more content…

We also do things now like they did back in ancient history. One of the similarities that they both have in common are that the males mostly have the power to control everyone in the Civilization. Another one is that the mother of that family was the one that had to do jobs like making food and taking care of the children. They also did things that we still do today one of the things are they both can adopt kids. When a couple wanted to get a divorce they still can like we can still today. Their kids learn different things in ancient Egypt and Rome and when they learn those things that’s probably an everyday thing for them like we now have

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