NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Qift, Pepi I Meryre, Pepi Ii Neferkare
15 Sep 2016
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Internal affairs pyramid construction: requires new kind of administration and economy: recruiting people involved in agriculture need for, optimizing agricultural production, efficient ways of collecting taxes, additional sources of revenue. Food production remained same but state organized . 4-5: top: king 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, office of vizier (prime minister) by dyn. 4: also involved legal activities then judicative , overseer of works (minister of labour, by dyn. 4: royal secretariat (scribe of the royal documents, dyn. Developments in dynasty 5 and later construction of sun-temples (now smaller) pyramids at abusir: economically dependent on these (deliver their sustenance) 5: tradition of sun-temples ceases, royal tombs back in saqqara. Bureaucracy increasingly decentralized (viziers no longer from royal family) Head or overseer of upper egypt created in dyn.
