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.…
From their political organizations to their technological innovations, Both Sumer, or Mesopotamia, and Egypt have many things in common. Some of which included but are not limited to what and how they traded. Sumer and Egypt both traded with each other, and with each other, Lebanon, and India, while Sumer also traded with Arabia, Persia, and Afghanistan. Egypt also traded with modern-day Somalia and Ethiopia. Although the two kingdoms also have their differences, no two kingdoms or countries will be exactly alike.…
Normally, the status of pharaoh was a male only position but there were female pharaohs ruling in different periods of Egypt’s history. For example, Hatshepsut was originally the wife of a king, then a co-ruler of Egypt with her son Thutmose III, and finally a pharaoh after appointing herself. A pharaoh, the eldest male or female child of the recently deceased pharaoh, normally acquired their grand office upon the death of their father. This cycle of kingship and royalty procession was seen throughout the New Kingdom era with about 32 different kings. During this period of the New Kingdom, the foundation and authority of the royal kings was never inquired, challenged, or gossiped about (Hornung 1990: 283).…
In the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Israel, and the Greeks, there were communities run by the form of government, monarchy, or kingship. However kingship is different than monarchy as Merriam Webster defines kingship as “the position, office, or dignity of a king”. Monarchy is the family that rules, kingship also happens to be based of monarchy. There are good qualities of a king, and bad qualities; the bad qualities seem to form a pattern that prove flaws in kingship, however… In the play Greek play Antigone written by Sophocles in 441 B.C.E., Creon, the king of Thebes exhibits examples of defects in kingship.…
Pharaohs ruled the land of the living. Religious practice centered on the pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Even though the pharaoh was human, the pharaoh was believed to be in a way decedents from the gods, and they acted as a link between his people and the gods. These pharaohs had big statues of themselves made along the…
Both civilization of Southwest Asia and Egypt, had common perspectives of social structure, geography, environmental conditions, and ideas of women and families, yet with these similarities they still had many differences. Both civilizations each had a god-king, that was a leader to the people and were chosen and granted by God a divine and ultimate power. Furthermore, each civilization had a settlement were geographically near rivers, because of its abundance of water and food. Therefore, each civilization had analogous environmental conditions of flooding from the near river; Egyptians saw this as protection and isolation from the flooding. These kings took on absolute power over their people, which affected; the economics, social structure,…
Pharaohs in culture were believed to be semi-divine beings who represented Gods while they were on Earth. Chosen by the Gods, Pharaohs were given the right to rule. This honor is what led many of them to become successful rulers, besides the one case of the biblical Pharaoh. Mesopotamian rulers, while also being chosen by Gods, did not treat their appointment as seriously as the Egyptians did. Based off of Hammurabi’s Code and the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, we can concluded that many, if not all Mesopotamian rulers were harsh rulers.…
Ancient Egypt Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians went about their normal lives. And they, like many people today, had a religion they practiced. But how did their religion play a part in culture? Their Religion……
In all four civilizations the rule was only one ruler at a time. The titles of rulers were kings, emperors, and pharaohs. In China the government was a dynasty, which means that the ruling person was a part of a family and they would rule for a very long time. The dynasty would usually be passed…
At the top of the pyramid we would have the Monarch/King. The monarch or kings were strictly appointed by the church. They would appoint Nobles to set territories. Next level down on the pyramid would have the Nobles. Nobles where often given titles such as Duke or Lord and only…
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.…
Each city-state had it’s own political center. In Egypt, they had one ruler who controlled a centralized government. The one leader, called the Pharaoh, was worshipped as a God. However, the kings in Mesopotamia were not considered divine. Religion played a big role in the lifestyle of the two river valley civilizations.…
The Arise of Civilizations in Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley The Fertile Crescent lies from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. The Fertile Crescent was a land named because of its good soil and its golden wheat fields. Within the Fertile Crescent was a region called Mesopotamia that the ancient Greeks had named later. This meant “between the rivers” where it was located it was between the Tigris river and the Euphrates river.…
Pharaohs were very important back in ancient times. They were the rulers, or kings, of Egypt. There were 225 known pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Saqqare, a pharaoh of Egypt about 4,700 years ago, built the first pyramid.…
Because of their great reliance on the gods the second highest in command were the high priests. These men were said to be in direct communication with the gods, so as was with the Pharaohs, they were treated with the highest respect. As well as priests, nobles were a very high authority. They were the great landowners of egypt, these were the men that the general labourers paid taxes to, and answered to as they owned the land the labourers lived on.…