NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Merenre Nemtyemsaf I, Heracleopolis Magna, Autobiography Of Harkhuf
7 Apr 2016
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10 old kingdom (ii) state and administration internal and external. Pyramid construction requires new kind of administration and economy: recruiting people involved in agriculture , need for: Food production remained the same, but became state organized . The state e. g. brings surpluses to areas affected by drought/floods (redistribution: provides legal system to prevent/deal with local conflicts, insures security on national and local levels. Princes as military leaders/generals in dyn. 4: guarding fortresses in south (elephantine) and east (heliopolis, bubastis trade route to palestine, expeditions to quarries, etc, also first viziers head administrative apparatus. 1) office of vizier (prime minister) by dyn. 4: also involved legal activities judicative . 2) overseer of works (minister of labour) by dyn. 4. 3)royal secretariat (scribe of royal documents, mnistry of interior) 4) overseer of the granary (minister of agriculture) dyn. 5. 5) overseer of the treasury (minister of finance: systematized in dyn. 5 (cid:1) (cid:1) Construction of sun-temples: (now smaller) pyramids at abusir.
