Political organization of ancient Egypt

The political organization of ancient Egypt is based on the person of the Pharaon. Ancient Egypt being able to be described like a Theocracy, Pharaon, more than one king, is principal administrator, chief of the armies, first magistrate and supreme priest; it returned to him to choose only the policy to be carried out; he delegated the execution of his decisions to a troop of scribes, advisers and civils servant.

For that it rests on a administration divided into various “houses” (agriculture, irrigation, finances, royal funerary worship, army). At the local level the country is cut out in administrative districts called name, directed by a civil servant appointed by the king, the nomarque one.

The principal civils servant are by great fields:

In the immediate entourage of the Pharaon

Large royal wife, principal wife of Pharaon;
Vizier, kind of Prime Minister, first magistrate, it returns the justice of Maât in the name of Pharaon;
Wire royal of Koush, viceroy of Nubie;
Treasurer, senior official responsible for the royal reserves and the taxation controlling part of the administration of the country;
Carry-sandal, kind of private secretary;
Door standard;
royal Scribe, indexes the decrees, the transactions;
Carrying the range to the right-hand side of the king;

In the temples

Large Priest, organizes and manages the goods of the clergy; very important character as with Karnak (Large priests of Amon) or with Memphis (Large priest of Ptah);
Priest, pays homage to the gods instead of the Pharaon.

In the provinces

Nomarque, lord local managing a names in the name of Pharaon;
Scribe, indexes the transactions, the result of harvests;
Servant of the Place of Truth, craftsmen charged to build the tombs and the funerary temples of the Pharaons.

In the army

General of the armies, organizes the campaigns of war which the Pharaon decides;
Soldier;
Mercenary, foreign soldier.

Diplomacy

Ancient Egypt was during its long story in liaison with many people (Hittites, Hyksôs, Libya NS, Nubie NS, Peuples of the sea). ambassadors are sent on mission to treat in the name of their sovereign the delicate or factual businesses near the foreign leaders.

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