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== Centralized Power ==
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-Power centralized in the hands of a god-king, and Egypt became the first organized society.
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-pre-dynastic period: After a strong, centralized government under a god-kind--> country's economic and political institutions became subject to royal authority
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== Royal Rituals/ Cult of the Dead ==
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-burials: dark tomb, underground structure, dug out in desert sand or rock, offerings accompanying the dead
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-Kings of First Dynasty buried at Abydos: cult place of Osiris
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-tombs: simple mounds of sand held in place by a mud brick revetment, recalls the primeval mound which emerged from the waters at the time of creation
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http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/downloads/egypt/tombhistory/041.2.jpg
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History of Origins Manual pg. 115
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[[http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Egypt.html]]
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[[http://maat.sofiatopia.org/wenis.htm]]
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[[http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/downloads/egypt/tombhistory/041.2.jpg]]
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-Sophia Huynh
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