NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Pepi Ii Neferkare, Pepi I Meryre, Merenre Nemtyemsaf I
9 Jan 2013
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Pyramid construction: requires new kind of administration and economy recruiting people involved in agriculture need for, optimizing agricultural production, efficient ways of tax collection, additional sources of revenue food production remained the same but state organized . State: eg. brings surpluses to area affected by drought/floods, provides legal system to prevent/ deal with local conflicts, insures security on national and local levels. Systematized in dyns 4 5 top: king. Rouyal secretariat ( scribe of royal documents) ~ ministry of interior includes administration of temples. Overseer of the granary ~ minister of agriculture: dyn 5. Oversser of the treasury ~minister of finanace: dyn 5. Development in dyn 5 and later construction of sun-temples now smaller, pyramids at abusir: economically dependent on these deliver their sustenance. With wenis (last king of dyn 5: tradition of sun-temples ceases, royal tombs back in saqqara. Bureaucracy increasingly decentralized: viziers no longer from royal family.
