Egyptian+Government

GOVERNMENT by Theresa

In Egypt there is a Pharaoh that rules all of Egypt. The Pharaoh is the highest spiritual leader. He is human kinds connection to the gods. Being Pharaoh is past down from father to son. After a Pharaoh would die and have all of his ceremonies he would remain a god forever.
 * KING OR RULER

A clergy controlled the Theocracy. The clergy was the Pharaohs advisors and ministers. After the pharaoh there was the Vizor, the Chief of Ministers, then the bureaucratic officials. Below them, were the high priest, the other priests, and then the lower bureaucracy?
 * THEOCRACY

Land is divided up into provinces called nomes. The nomes each have a visor that is in charge of a certain nome. In egypt there were 42 nomes. The job of the vizors was to collect taxes and decide if the crimes were small enough for court, or so big the Pharaoh had to decide. The place people found the best was to build a house on the Nile River.
 * LAND

Instead of money taxes were paid in labor or goods. The citizens were put in the army for a certain period of time to off their labor taxes. Most of the people they put in the army actually fought in a war.
 * TAXES

The pharaoh also controlled the army. Instead of having an official ranking system the pharaoh brought in officials from over the border and paid them to run the army. The people he brought were allready officers in their home country and new how to ru an army.
 * ARMY