Glossary
The post-Old Kingdom redistribution of Pharaoh's centralized powers into priestly administration, compared by Jiang to Confucian bureaucracy.
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priest bureaucracy
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After the Old Kingdom, Egypt stabilized by devolving Pharaoh's centralized powers into a priest bureaucracy and importing new ideas, leading to renewed creativity and innovation.
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"So yeah, that's a great point. Okay? So you're actually right. Even though they stopped building pyramids, this civilization would go on for another..."
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"...pharaoh and then devolve it into the priesthood and creating a priest bureaucracy. Okay? Which is very much like the Confucian bureaucracy in China...."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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