Respond to the following based on your reading. By now you should have noticed that trade becomes important to people as they settle down and develop more complex societies. What advantages does a society gain when it engages in trade? What was hieroglyphics and why was it important to Egyptians? How can you know the power of pharaohs was the strongest during the time of the Old Kingdom and Archaic Period? Why did Egyptians mummify upper-class people?