Their labour. During the flood season when the farmers could not work their land, he gave them employment and sustenance working on pyramids and other projects.
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The main source of tax revenue was on the harvests. Peasant farmers were expected to give up 60% of their crops to the government.
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most Ancient Egyptians were peasant farmers
They farm all day and feed the people of Egypt. They build for the Pharaoh.
Because they had thousands of peasant farmers to do the work when the Nile flooded and no work was possible on the land.
it was to show how important people were Also it was mostly about what jobs they had in Egypt's daily life. the pharaoh was at the top of the social pyramid. Peasant farmers were at the bottom part of the social pyramid. The rich looked down upon the bottom.