HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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farmers
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the vizier
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the high priest
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the royal overseers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Right below the pharaoh in status were powerful nobles and priests. Only nobles could hold government posts; in these positions they profited from tributes paid to the pharaoh. Priests were responsible for pleasing the gods.
Detailed explanation-2: -The pharaoh was at the top of the social hierarchy. Next to him, the most powerful officers were the viziers, the executive heads of the bureaucracy.
Detailed explanation-3: -In a Bureaucratic system of government, like that of Egypt, the Vizier was second-in-command below the Pharaoh. This status means he had power and authority appointed to him by the Pharaoh and the Pharaoh was the only person who outranked him.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Egyptians soon accepted the Ptolemies as the successors to the pharaohs of independent Egypt. Ptolemy’s family ruled Egypt until the Roman conquest of 30 BC. All the male rulers of the dynasty took the name, Ptolemy.
Detailed explanation-5: -The most powerful person in ancient Egypt was the pharaoh. The pharaoh was the political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: ‘Lord of the Two Lands’ and ‘High Priest of Every Temple’.