Ancient Egypt & Ottoman Empire

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The Egyptian society consisted of three kingdoms (Old, Middle, and New) and about thirty-four different dynasties. The Egyptians were ruled by kings or pharaohs. The earlier rulers were called “Horus-kings”. I think that they called themselves “Horus-kings” because they thought the pharaoh was associated with Horus. That’s probably true in the Egyptians mind because they did believe that the pharaoh was basically a god. There were many rulers over the time due to disease, illness, etc. The Egyptians had only the pharaoh to tell them what to do and to deal with the people’s problems, although it more the vizier who dealt with the people. Unlike the Egyptians the Ottomans didn’t have as many kings or dynasties. Ottoman had about thirty-six kings over the course of the empire. They had quite fewer because they had better times to live in there possibly was less disease and better living. The sultans ruled for about twenty years. Few sultans ruled twice. The reason some rules twice was because they step down and let their successor rule and went back into power again after their successor. Between both civilizations the rulers ruled until their death, some of them did step down for another ruler to take rule. I think that some of them did actually ruled to their death but not much information was given for the Egyptians because of the amount of kings or rulers that the Egyptians had.
Although the people living in Egypt had houses, pets, crops, and jewelry nothing was theirs, the government or the pharaoh owned everything. I think that it seems unfair to the people that they couldn’t even own one measly thing. Being the pharaoh and a descendant of the god the pharaoh owned everything and practically owned all of ancient Egypt. Pharaoh...

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...as, spices, and porcelain. Russia and the Black Sea came with furs, grain, and amber. Europe traded mirrors and drugs. Ottomans had inherited Seljuk caravan stops to help protect the caravan trade. They had state supervision to make sure there was no cheating; the kadi patrolled the markets for cheating. There was a tax on almost every transaction. The government was informed of everything; for example, when an employee left a company they were notified. Their main exports were leather, skins and wool. Many men were engaged in some sort of trade, even the sultan learned one. The Egyptian had many aspects on the economy that made their lives successful. They used trading for their money. The people collected grew or raised things to be sold in the markets. Egyptians trade was made up of trading gold and wheat. The children grew up learning the trade of their family.

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