How were ancient Egyptian goverment and soceity like our goverment and society today? How were they different?
2006-11-06 12:20:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
big differences - top-downwards government, hereditary authority, heavily influenced or controlled by priests, sexual symbolism of the king and queen's personal fertility was important (contrast the political disadvantage of similar sex drive for presidents Mitterand and Clinton), the ordinary Egyptian people had no power and some of them were slaves. Government is much more involved today in the lives of ordinary people e.g. providing schools, police, and pensions (and in many countries healthcare).
Society was different because the economy was dominated by agriculture, and although there was trade it would not prevent drought leading to famine. Our society and government works on much larger population and area units. People in Egypt did not have "rights". Men and women had different and definite roles.
2006-11-10 01:31:46 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOTHING,If they were alive today, "why not use the power of the Pen, ... together and not let this or any other goverment strip us all of Human rights
2006-11-06 20:23:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had the same class system. Rich, Middle, Poor: however we seem to be loosing are middle class so now it's just rich or poor.
2006-11-06 20:37:31 · answer #3 · answered by reefer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
class system - idolize the beautiful - materialistic
2006-11-09 08:13:56 · answer #4 · answered by !?!?! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋