who was the first king?

Answer 1

The earliest known civilization was the Uruk civilization, which later became the Sumerian civilization. Wikipedia has a list of Sumerian kings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_king_list
The first on the list is Alulim: "After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu(g). In Eridu(g), Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years."
This is mostly based on legend, of course, but the list peculiarly blends probably mythological kings with exceptionally long reigns, into more plausibly historical dynasties. It cannot be ruled out that most of the earliest names in the list correspond to historical rulers who later became legendary figures.

So you could say Alulim was the first king.

Answer 2

Rule by monarchs, the archaeologists say, predates the development of writing by thousands of years; therefore, the real answer to this is not known. Others here have merely given names of kings whose existence was written down, not actually naming the first person to rule as a king. That is unknown and lost to history.

Answer 3

Mesannepada (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda) was the first king in the first dynasty of Ur, in ca. the 25th century BC. He is listed to have ruled for 80 years.

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Narmer was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled in the 31st century BC. Thought to be the successor to the predynastic Serket, he is considered by some to be the founder of the First dynasty, and therefore the first pharaoh of all Egypt. There is a growing consensus that Serket and Narmer are identical, but no identification with any early pharaoh can yet be definitivly proven. Narmer's name is represented phonetically by the hieroglyphic sign for a catfish (n'r) and that of a chisel (mr). Modern variants of his name include "Narmeru" or "Merunar", but convention uses "Narmer"

Answer 4

According to the history..the first king was Mina the king of Egypt who made union between the north and south kingdom...

Answer 5

G'day Bence B,

Thanks for your question.

The title king is of German origin and started in prehistory.

Germanic monarchies were primitive states. At the apex of a society of mostly free men stood the monarch (almost always a king), who had a few limited functions. The Germanic monarchies were originally pagan in nature, but their contact, during the Volkerwanderung of the Migration Period, with the Roman Empire and the Christian Church greatly altered their structure and they soon developed into different entities in which the king was more than the leader of a war band and the law more than oral tradition.

The Germanic king originally had three main functions:

* To serve as judge during the popular assemblies.
* To serve as a priest during the sacrifices.
* To serve as a military leader during wars.

The office was hereditary, but originally a Germanic king had to have the consent of the people before he could assume the throne. All the sons of the king had the right to claim the throne, which often led to co-rulership (diarchy) where two brothers were elected kings at the same time. This evolved into the territories being considered the hereditary property of the kings, patrimonies, a system which fuelled feudal wars, because the kings could claim ownership of lands beyond their de facto rule.

As a sort of pagan high priest, the king often claimed descent from some deity. In the Scandinavian nations, he administered blóts at important cult sites, such as the Temple at Uppsala. Refusal to administer the blóts could lead to the king losing his power.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, much of her provinces came under the rule of Germanic kings: Hispania to the Visigoths, Italia to the Ostrogoths, Gallia to the Franks, Britannia to the Anglo-Saxons, and Africa to the Vandals. These nations had by then been in contact with Rome for a century or more and had adopted many Roman customs. They had been Christianised too and pagan practice was slowly being replaced.

The Frankish state under her Merovingian dynasty had many of the characteristics of Germanic monarchy under heavy influence from saecular and ecclesiastic Rome. Her kings, through their division of the territory, treated her not as a state independent of themselves, but as their patrimony, land won by conquest (theirs and their forefathers'). The king was primarily a war leader and a judge. Much energy and much ink has been expended studying and seeking to explain the collapse of Merovingian power and most theories have blamed the inability of later Merovingians in war as an important factor. The commonly-cited occasion of Sigebert III sobbing in his saddle after a defeat (the king was then only ten years old) highlights the importance of victory in battle for a king who is chiefly a warrior.

The principle of election, which determined Germanic succession, was abandoned in those states under heaviest influence from the papacy (such as Merovingian Gaul, where hereditary succession and the divine right of the reigning dynasty was recognised). However, in Visigothic Spain (so long under Arian rule) the principle survived longer and has been seen as the root of Visigothic weakness at the time of the Moorish invasion. In Anglo-Saxon Britain, the principle survived until the Norman Conquest removed it. Anglo-Saxon kings were elected by the witena gemót. Finally, the principle survived in some form or other for centuries after the demise of the last Germanic monarchies. The civil wars of medieval Scandinavia and the electorate of the Holy Roman Empire are part of its legacy.

The name king is derived from the Anglo-Saxon cyning, which in turn is derived from the Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. The original meaning is contested. One theory is that the element *kun relates to the word kindred or that it originally meant descendant of a ruler. Another theory is that it is originally meant belonging to the woman, i.e. belonging to the mother goddess and referring to the king's role as a priest.

You may also want to read:

* William A. Chaney, The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity, University of California Press (1970).
* Joseph H. Lynch, Christianizing Kinship: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England, Cornell University Press (1998), ISBN 0801435277.
* Painter, Sidney. A History of the Middle Ages 284−1500. New York, 1953.


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Answer 6

There is no one clearly identified in history. But if you refer to Biblical history, it is Saul, anointed by the Hebrew prophet and judge Samuel.

Answer 7

The lord.

Answer 8

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/sargon.htm

Answer 9

burger ha

Answer 10

for me its jesus christ.