Ancient Egypt
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Cities and states
During the ancient Egypt time, the kingdom can be divided into nomes, or districts. This idea of dividing into nomes was invented over 3100 BC. Nomes were the autonomous, or self-govern, districts. Each nome had nomarch as the governor. The country was divided into 42 nomes, 20 lower Egyptian nomes and 22 upper nomes. Apparently, all nomes were located along the nile river plain, main river of ancient Egypt kingdom, which showed how important the location was in that time. This gave full abilities for each nomes to trade and to cultivate. In each nome, there was a capital city. These provincial capitals were religious, economic centers. Some nomes showed their development by building temple, while some putting the importance on army.
Government
In the ancient Egypt kingdom, it was absolute monarchy system in which absolute power was at the king or pharaoh. Pharaoh was both political and religious leader. Pharaoh was also called the lord of two lands. The pharaoh would have a vizier as his grand advisor. Vizier would work beside him to help him governing the kingdom. Vizier was the highest rank, in Egyptian society, despite the pharaoh. Moreover, there were 4 more high positions in ancient Egypt kingdom: nomarch who was the head of the nome, tax collector who took care of tax from people and the tariff, army commander who took care of the army (very important in that time because there were a lot of battles) and finally, minister of public works who gave people jobs to serve the pharaoh. All of the high-ranked positions were belonged to the priest or the noble men, who had education.
Religion
During the time of ancient Egypt kingdom, there was an only one religion, Egyptian mythology. This religion was influenced by Egyptian culture. It was based on myths, worship and god. The famous one of all the myths was the creation of the earth. The Egyptian mythology believed in 5 gods. It worshiped the Sun. One of the important things is that in Egyptian mythology, people had a strong believe in life after death. They believed that death people would go to another world, the world of death. This was why they put some personal belongings, such as pots and gold, in the coffin.
Job specialization
Most of the people were farmers as you can see that all nomes were located on the
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