In Egypt, at the top of the social standing was the pharaoh, who was looked at as a leader and considered a god. In Mesopotamia, the king was at the top, who is looked at as a leader as well. Next in Egypt were the high priests and priestesses who served the leaders, and similarly in Mesopotamia, the governors took care of the kingdom’s territories. Another step down in Egypt were the nobles, who fought the pharaoh’s wars. Next in the Egypt organization were merchants, scribes, and artisans, who made items to be traded, and in Mesopotamia, the next level down was the aristocracy, who were priests and traders as well.…
As hunter-gatherer civilizations moved to agricultural practices, civilization was born. Two of these initial prominent societies existed in the Indus River Valley Civilization and the Shang Dynasty. While these civilizations are dissimilar from one another and recognized for their lasting contributions, both also controlled links politically, technologically, and economically. The Shang Dynasty influenced a stratified structure of government ruled by a king. Aristocrats, warriors, and government representatives met at the uppermost of the social ranking.…
Priest have their own class system and were kept to high expectations like being refraining from alcohol and being celibate. Failure to do any of these thing would often end in death or serious punishment. Nobles were most often inclined to tribute from commoners in the form of foods and goods. Noble status was passed on through family lineages. Only the nobles were aware to show off their wealth by wearing jewelry, decorated capes, etc.…
Life was extremely different at the time of ancient Egypt. The culture and religion was very more symbolic as well as artistic. The representation and reflection of the gods and goddess were precious and very detailed to help the viewers to understand the creation of life. The Egyptians believed in the existence of gods and goddess, who have their own symbolic representations which developed beliefs in different things. One of the most important deity at the time was the sun god Ra, this god was significant in holding his presence in the minds of the Egyptians when it came to the evolution of the world.…
Their religion was based on merely traditions. One tradition that was highly believed in is called Divine Kingship. Divine Kingship is the belief that the pharaoh was one of the gods. Politically, he is said to have immense power and would help the Egyptians in the afterlife. Since the Nile flooded every year at a consistent time it was not hard convincing the Egyptian that the pharaoh made it happen.…
Belief system was broken down into different categories and consisted of gods that ruled over each of the classes. This form of worship is much like the modern day college schedule. For example, most students going through college working for the professors that they attend courses with. From what I have gathered from the research that I have done the Egyptian people worship place their gods in high standing positions. This being said their form of worship tends to follow a lineage-based system where the power is passed down from generation to generation.…
Armor includes Body armor armor shields they were first made out of stone then made out of copper then made out of bronze over the years of Egypt it is very popular in Ancient Egyptian weapons include Bow and arrow war chariot maces battle axes later metal heads hatches clubs sword sickle swords and daggers spears. The weapons were very useful in those days probably the most popular weapons are swords Pharaohs The Egyptians believed pharaohs to connect gods and men. That is why they worshipped him/her. Some people became pharaohs by winning a battle with the last pharaoh. Others Became it by blood and being in the family of the last pharaoh.…
Also Egypt was ruled over as one society and Mesopotamia was composed of many city-states ruled by multiple kings. The Pharaoh, king in Egypt, would respect his followers so that they can follow him by their own will. Be not arrogant because of what you know; deal with the ignorant as well as the learned (Ptah Hotep 1). The ideal was for the Pharaoh to respect all, regardless of status or intelligence. This will led to the buildings of structures to present…
The Shang and Zhou dynasty coexisted and originated in China, around the Yellow / Huang He river in the Bronze era ( 1,700 bce ) and went on to exist for nearly 2,000 more years. Though these Dynasties weren’t in perfect peace and harmony with one another, they shared similar values and working methods in which made the two opposing dynasties very similar. Each pillar (social, political, interaction with the environment, cultural, and economics) had it’s own way of showing through in it’s time and place, but for me there were three which showed to be the most prominent in the dynasties. Agriculture was a substantial part of the making of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, as many things revolved around it and it revolved around other things.…
During the Ancient Egyptian period, surrounding areas well read from the extremely sophisticated Egyptians. The early Egyptians had a class structure. At the top of the class, a god in human form a pharaoh oversaw all (ushistory.org, 2014). At the bottom of the class, slaves and servants. The middle class consisted of farmers, artisans, merchants, scribes, soldiers, and government officials.…
Egypt's social classes were like a pyramid the slaves were at the bottom and the pharaoh was on top. In ancient egypt the social classes were in the shape of a pyramid. The farmers are on the bottom of the pyramid then comes the craftsmen. The craftsmen are above the farmers because the craftsmen can make more things like jewelry, clothing,statues and other things that people might need. Next are the merchants.…
The Ancient Egyptian Government was ruled first and foremost by the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh was the supreme leader not only of the government, but also of the religion. However, the Pharaoh couldn't run the government all by himself, so he had a hierarchy of rulers and leaders below him who ran different aspects of the government. http://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_egyptian_government.php On the next rung down were priests who specialized in watching the universe and interpreting its movements.…
It appears that the Pyramid Texts are indeed reflective of ancient Egyptian society at the time of the OK. Distribution and usage of funerary texts indicate how strongly the upper and lower classes were divided. (At this point in history, the middle class did not exist yet). The political and religious dominance of the pharaoh was firmly established and never questioned. The PT also reflected religious beliefs but altered to better the perception of kingship (Simpson 2003:247).…
“Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, [and] becoming more complicated” – Arthur Keith. This is the case of Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire, two magnificent civilizations wrapped in a twisted fate. It was when the Roman Republic defeated Egypt’s army that it became a prosperous empire. Even though Ancient Egypt existed thousands of years before the start of the Roman Empire, both civilizations strikingly shared common social aspects in society. In addition to similarities, major differences were also seen in daily life.…
Egypt was a complex civilization because ancient Egypt had all of the seven indicators. It had a government, a religion, a bunch of cities, specialized skills and jobs, they traded, they had different social classes, and they had a method of keeping records. Their method of keeping records were called hieroglyphs. They had slaves, a low class with farmers, a middle class with doctors, and a high class with priests, and their religion had hundreds of different gods and goddesses.…