RELIGN M132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fot, Populism, Xenophobia

• School: UCLA
• Department: Religion, Study of
• Course: RELIGN M132
• Professor: Kathlyn Cooney

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His reign is a reaction to akhenaten"s rule. Link himself with the dynasty and the egyptians as a new ruler. I am adopted by this family because the actual son did something wrong. Rameses can claim emergency powers because of akhenaten"s failures. Egypt: none of these kings are a man unto himself. In a particular society, they have a particular power. >> and you have this professionalism that makes it very hard for the king to come in and say you will do what i say . King has to present himself as more powerful than before. > i"m buying into something that he cannot change. >> this is the society that he inherits, that his military, tourism, and that institution create. >> so there"s nothing that he can do about that. >> but in response, he creates a greater difficulty to his kingship than has ever been seen before.