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we were taught from young age in history that babylon and roman emoire does not exist anymore. but thats a lie cause all signs in our society show we are still living under roman empire/babylon and it never ceased to exist and it even expanded its power around the globe! nothing changes since then, only technology! the laws of the society are the same! the TPTB are the same ancient lineage of pharisees and self proclaimed kings/caesars/tsars/kaisers!
http://buddyhuggins.blogspot.co.at/2...l#.VdAmvOUZncw
http://www.mylesohowe.com/worldgovernment/
http://this-present-crisis.blogspot....update_10.html
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/so...nspiracy37.htm
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/va...vatican18b.htm
The main characteristics of river civilizations were:
* Their strong political power. The king kept control of everything, from politics to religion. He passed laws to rule his country. The king was also in charge of the army which he created to protect his possessions.and many times the king had religious functions. There were also civil servants who helped the king to manage his possessions.
* Society was very hierarchical. The population was divided into two very different groups: few of them were privileged people and the majority were subjugated people. Most of the lands and riches belonged to the first ones, the privileged people.
Privileged groups were a minority who had all the rights and possessed most of the wealth.
* The aristocracy consisted of the king, his family and the nobility. They owned a great part of the land and were in charge of the highest positions in the army and government.
* The priests, who lived in the temples, led the religious rituals. They possessed part of the land and craft workshops and co-operated with the government.
* The scribes stood out among the civil servants. They came from noble families and had great power. They were assigned other tasks such as being couriers, managers, cup-bearers, etc.
The rest of the population was divided into either free people who had rights, or slaves who had not rights and were treated as objects.
Some of these other free people were:
* Peasants, who rented the lands that surrounded the city. These lands belonged to the king or the temple. To keep them the peasants had to give the temple or the king part of the harvest they obtained. They usually cultivated barley, wheat, beans, chickpeas, cucumbers, etc. with rudimentary ploughs.
* Craftsmen, who worked in workshops. There were different craftsmen according to their specific work: weavers, carpenters, goldsmiths, perfumers, etc.
Women were the property of men. They did not always work and when they worked, their pay was half of what an adult man earned.
Nine out of ten Egyptian men and women were peasants. They were very poor and lived in small mud-brick houses along the River Nile.
It was very difficult for peasants to survive. They had a very difficult life. The pharaoh, the priests and the noblemen owned the lands and the peasants cultivated them. In exchange for their work, they could have a part of the harvest, but they had to give another part to the landowners and they had to pay a sum to the pharaoh as a tax.
All the family participated in the different farming tasks : the men ploughed and the women sowed; both did the harvesting. The children helped their parents since they were very young.
Their work was very hard. Most agricultural tools that they used were similar to those of earlier times: for example, the sickles and the hoes were made of stone, wood or bronze. But they used a new tool which made their lives easier: the plough. With the plough it was not necessary for peasants to bend their backs to cultivate the land. They could also make deeper furrows.
During the season of the Nile floods, peasants were recruited by the pharaoh to participate in the construction of pyramids and other public buildings.
Other professions in Egyptian civilization were: sailors, soldiers, craftsmen and merchants.
* Sailors travelled by ship to far away lands to buy wood, metals and perfumes.
* Soldiers fought in wars and, in exchange, the pharaoh gave them with lands, gold and slaves.
* The majority of the craftsmen worked for the pharaoh. The most important were: stone carvers, sculptors, goldsmiths and papyrus and linen* manufacturers.
* Merchants sold products. Since money did not exist in Egypt at that time, they used barter. Barter means that they exchanged some products for others.
Slaves
They were usually war prisoners and had no rights. Most of them were owned by the pharaoh, although priests and noblemen had slaves too. The pharaoh used them for building great monuments, working in copper mines or as soldiers.
by Juan Carlos Ocańa
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