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Kingship In Ancient Egypt

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Kingship became necessary because they needed someone to please the gods and help keep people from doing the things the gods disapproved of. There are many similarities between Mahabharata and the Hymn to the Pharaoh, both see their leader as god like or a god pleaser, both their leaders help keep their people in position to please the gods. There are difference though, the Mahabharata talks about how the gods can lose power and get scared by the way their people act and that they need the king to help them out, the Hymn to the Pharaoh thinks the gods are all powerful all the time and also believe that their leader is a god and they fear him.

The women in India I think were treated with less respect and were not able to do anything

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