What is the ancient Egypt government?

Answer 1

The government that the ancient Egyptians had was in its most simplistic form, a monarchy. However, the Pharaoh was seen as a living god on earth. Quite simply, the kingship of the Pharaoh and his authority could not be questioned. That's not to say it didn't happen, but it reinforced a completely different worldview than the one we have today. The Pharaoh was worshipped alongside the gods, and when the Pharaoh died, he would take his rightful place as king of the underworld.

This had immense implications, especially when looking at the reign of Akenaten. He attempted to force worship of the Aten (or sun disc) as a new monotheistic national cult. He built a new center of religious activity for the whole of Egypt, and got away with it for most of his reign. This would be akin to a President in the United States suddenly declaring that Mahayana Buddhism was the national religion and nobody doing anything about it until he died. When Akenaten died, his son, Tutankhamun, destroyed the cult of the Aten and restored the old religion. But in today's world, such a drastic and unilateral policy decision would never be tolerated. But that's the way it was with a god-king. :)

Answer 2

The pharaoh was a god on earth and represented the gods. The life force was represented by multiple gods instead of one God as in western thought. Early in the history of Egypt upper and lower Egypt were joined into one government, but the identity of those two divisions remained and the union was represented in the combined red and white crown of the pharaoh. Theoretically you could think of Egypt as one, then upper and lower Egypt as states, then the "nomes" within them as counties of the states. Unlike the U.S. though, all of these governmental divisions were governed by representatives selected by and under the power of the Pharaoh and the priesthood.

Answer 3

ancient Egypt ran on a monarchy-type government, with the Pharaoh at the top. The next most powerful man was the vizier.

The country was divided into districts called nomes. Each nome was ruled by a nomarch.

Answer 4

Ancient Egypt was governed by a mix between a monarchy and a theocracy. Egypt had a royal family and dynastic rule, but they believed that the king was chosen by the gods to lead and that he represented the gods on earth. The king had both civic and religious authority.

Answer 5

The ancient egyptians didn't have a government they were led by a pharoh who also took advice from the egyptian gods

Answer 6

military controlled by the pharoah

Answer 7

A monarchy