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Old Kingdom Egypt
Tides of History
The Elite in Egypt
In egypt, everything revolves around the man at the very top. Elites and especially the pharaoh so dominate sources we work with that you can almost forget there was even anybody existing below them. As best we can tell, the elite in egypt was tiny in comparison with other ancient societies. A few hundred or a couple thousand courtiers at most, gathered around the pharaoh and his close family members. Hundreds of thousands of common people sowing and harvesting,. caring for live stock hauling mud brick and stone blocks for construction projects and all the rest.
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