Egypt : A Fragile State

Ancient Egypt is such an interesting and amazing society to study due to the various factors that allowed the city and population to thrive. The culture, quite different to other cultures around the world in ancient times, developed quite unique traditions, technologies and ideas. Small features of this society including aligning the 4 corners of the pyramids and being able to divide the year into 365 days makes it truly fascinating, The main reason that this society was able to thrive and be successful can be attributed to the great Nile River. Due to this people were able to settle which lead to the creation of a surplus, which could be sustained for around 2000 years.

Ancient Egypt Started To form Around 3100 B.C.But when Alexander the great took control at 332 B.C. That's when Egypt started to develop. Egypt was one of the world's first organized society because their written language, religion, and institutions. Egypt Became successful Because their leaders, Military, Culture, and artifacts. Alexander the Great was born to parents King Philip II and Queen Olympia.

Government and Religion were inseparable , the Pharaoh lead the Government and represented the Gods in Human form. the egyptian people would also use temples to worship Gods on a daily basis. The society was built on order, law and defending the country for the people, and to make sure they were taken care of. The hierarchy enabled Egypt to create stability and organization, from the Pharaoh to the farmers for 3000 years.

Egypt, a country in North Africa, is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. During the ancient times the Old Kingdom was formed. The first of the three so called “Kingdom” periods. This is when Egypt was first unified and kings were thought of as gods. Soon after, this kingdom collapsed, the Middle Kingdom, also know as the period of Reunification was created along with social zoning. This kingdom was during the time period 2000 -1700 BC. After the death of King Sobeknefru, everything in the middle kingdom started to go downhill which lead to the second intermediate period. Later, the New Kingdom, also known as the Egyptian empire was created. This Kingdom was during the time period of 16th through 11th century BC. This was Egypt’s most

During ancient Egypt, civilization was brought about because the people picked a ruler, or king. “Two of the most important sources of life for the ancient Egyptians were the Nile River and the Pharaoh” (William). At the time, society was very hierarchical; the society was divided into two groups: the privileged people and the majority. The king kept control and managed everything ranging from politics to religion.

Egypt spans across the northeast corner of Africa and the southwest corner of Asia. The country is bordered by the Mediterranean sea and the Red Sea as well as Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel and the Gaza strip to the east. The majority of Egypt's 390,000 square miles of land lies within the Nile Valley of North Africa. Egypt has over 87 million inhabitants, making it the fifteenth most populous country in the world. Across the country, days are typically warm to hot and nights are cool. Egypt experiences a mild winter from November to April and a hot summer from May to October. The country receives very minimal rainfall throughout the year due to it’s desert climate.

Egyptians began to settle along the banks of the Nile River, Starting as far north as to the city of Alexandria all the way down south to Aswan. They developed into a well-structured society as Far East to the Red Sea and west to Dakhia, Oasis among many (Figure 1.). The Nile River reached far lending a hand in creating a well-known civilization that consisted of building pyramids and producing crops for their pharaoh. Evolving from hunters and gatherers into agriculturalists throughout history, Egypt has claimed to be one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of ancient times. One could wonder if, what led to the collapse of this great society resulted from the Egyptians interaction with the environment by overusing

First and foremost, Ancient Egypt was structured in the form of a pyramid. The top of the pyramid of course was the gods. These gods included Ra, Osiris, and Iris, and according to the people of Egypt, these gods controlled almost the entire earth. Leaders in Egypt were called pharaohs so they were believed to be Gods in human form which is amazing. The ruler in status were powerful nobles and priests. Only nobles could hold government posts and in those positions they profited from tributes paid to the pharaoh. Priests were responsible for pleasing the gods. While soldiers fought in wars or quelled domestic uprisings. When there was no war to fight, the soldiers supervised

The Egyptians were not far behind the Sumerians in settling down to civilization and Empire. Like Rome they had a strong central government, a military structure, trade, a state religion and a civic structure. Rome was, however, superior to Egypt as well. Governmentally, the Pharaoh was an absolute ruler, as the Roman Emperor, but the Roman system was not reliant on a bloodline as was the Egyptian system, and was hence more likely to remain stable for long periods of time. The heir being intellectually picked and groomed greatly reducing the problems associated with hereditary rule. Militarily, Egypt was often strong enough to fight off invasion, but although they did project power, they did not conquer lands to expand their empire. Rome expanded their lands and grew more powerful, where the Egyptians seemed content with Egypt. Rome's policy of expansion helped fuel their trade routes and economy, boosting them past Egypt's limiting boarders. Egypt had a good infrastructure, largely an agrarian system of roads and irrigation, but it was nothing in comparison to the

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Regarding the first criteria for a civilization, (A large population with 5,000 or more people contained in cities with formal organization) the population during the flowering of Egypt is estimated to be “as many as 3 million people”. (p.362) With a population of over three million people ancient Egypt definitely meets the population criteria for a civilization. Regarding a food surplus of ancient Egypt, it is said that the pharaohs were able to have a vast and powerful army and huge workforce to conscript irrigation canals. (p.362) With the vast amount of additional food and food supplies, the pharaoh could feed his people and keep them from revolt. While there was a food surplus in ancient Egypt that enabled the civilization to grow, there also existed a class of artisans and laborers who were specialized in their own fields. This labor specialization enabled massive public works projects such as the pyramids at Giza, as well as many other artifacts that still exist in this present day. Labor Specialization led to the advent of Social Stratification. Those at the bottom of the social ladder were the peasants, above the peasants were the farmers and laborers, above them were the artisans and specialized work force, and above them were the military, and finally the ruling class and ultimately the Pharaoh. In ancient Egypt, there was also a

With the development of human society, civilization is incessantly progressive. One aspect of human civilization’s progress is political civilization. Democratic politics can be considered to be the representatives of political civilization. When people refer to the history of human progress, they find that human beings struggle to achieve this great goal and no one can stop the human desire for political freedom. In 2011, one more country took a step towards democracy. Egypt is in the ancient, sacred and conservative Middle East. Egyptians are cheering for their own political aspirations as they overthrew Mubarak’s dictatorship, and are gradually making efforts to establish a democratic and peaceful country.

Egypt was a complex civilization because it had all of the important civilization indicators. Egypt was a smart resourceful they had strong beliefs. Under the rule of the Pharaoh, they build an empire and even now a thousand year later it is still one of the greatest civilization in history.

Corporatism has often been called a "third way" or a "mixed economy", it's perceived as a combination of socialism and capitalism, but in reality it's a separate unique political economic system. Although many of us are not acquainted with the "corporatism", most of the world economies are corporatists. A corporatist system is a system where the society and the economy are structured into main interest groups whose representatives settle problems through "negotiation" and "joint agreement". Corporatist system works through collective bargaining and certain key groups are closely integrated into the formal political process.

In September 2003, in an interview with Al-Ahram, the Egyptian government newspaper, in response to a question about economic problems with a reference to a current shortage of bread - President Mubarak of Egypt stated, once again, publicly and forcefully that rapid population growth in Egypt was the primary cause of the country's economic and social problems. He added that the country was doing what it could to solve these problems, but that the government could only do so much. Implicit in his announcement was a patriotic call to the people to have smaller families. If the President of Egypt speaks out publicly about population growth, it must be a grave concern of state officials. Indeed,