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Despotism in Ancient Egypt

الإِستبداد في مصر القديمة
Supervisor:الدكتور الأستاذ الدكتور أ.د سعدون عبد الهادي برغش الامير

Abstract

Egypt is known for a distinctive geographical location of great importance, and the Egyptian regions consist of four geographical units, each of which differs from the other by its natural phenomena. Under the natural framework of the country, organization became a prerequisite for life, and Egyptian society was divided into pharaohs and peasants, as much as the power, cruelty and wealth of the Pharaoh defined the authoritarian regime of history. The concept of tyranny knew its clear significance in pharaonic thought, especially when it was placed in the legal context, where the autocratic ruler became the one who rules without adherence to the law, and without taking into account the principle of accountability or accountability, and we find in many writings referring to the patterns of governance systems, as the authoritarian regime forms the framework that makes power in its various manifestations in the hands of a ruler who rules without law or rule, and issues his judgments by his own will and whims in its various fluctuations. The concept of autocracy was associated with the political sphere, and possessed specific connotations that gave it specific features, as it designates a type of government system in which a person or group is independent of power, and does not refer, in what is issued by it, to laws, rules or charters arranged for the rules of power. The autocrat may be a king, as the Pharaohs were in ancient Egypt, and he may be a tyrant who reached the head of the government by a coup, and the keys to power became in his hand by brute force. From this point of view, the topic of our tagged message ( tyranny in ancient Egypt ) came to simulate the reality of tyranny in ancient Egypt, which is considered an explicit model of this concept, and this was manifested through the nature of the rule characterized by the rulers of Pharaonic Egypt, and highlighting the nature of tyranny and its types through four chapters, we talk in the first chapter and deal with social tyranny, and in three discussions, the first is tribal and family tyranny, the second is the tyranny of social classes and the third is the tyranny of the ruling classes against the ruling classes. (B) The first is the authoritarian nature of ancient Egyptian economic thought and the second is the forms and manifestations of economic tyranny, exploitation of the working classes, taxes, forced labor). The first chapter: the tyranny of Gods against gods, the second chapter: the tyranny of Gods against humans, the third chapter: the tyranny of humans against gods, the fourth chapter: the tyranny of humans against humans, and the fifth chapter: the tyranny of priests.

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