Military might alone could not maintain order and production as long as it was needed to complete the pyramids so it must have been a more structured environment ... like a work week with time off, etc.
THAT means there had to have been a police force and judicial system as well.
Food had to be provided to a desert people that was not only a labor force but the support personel also.
That means there had to have been a shipping/handling/transportation system.
The older I get, the more I think about the practical way life was and is, and this is one of the conclusions I've come to.
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And when one really delves into that side of things, concerning our known human history, the stranger become the conventional explanations...
Consider, for example, our “cave” dwelling ancestors. While they were living in caves, the sea level was hundreds of feet below present day. Most people like to live near the oceans, true today and very likely true thousands of years ago. So what were those “cave” dwellers really doing? What were their vanished coastal relatives doing (the existence of which modern science steadfastly ignores/denies)?
It's just Og chipping away at a stone to make a wheel and then on to Bo talking on his cellphone to some fat-faced brunette with a false tan.
And for G_d’s sake do NOT look up!!!
The Old Kingdom Egyptians were one of the first to organize a functioning civil society.
But we’ll never stop arguing the WHY of the Great Pyramids. People just can’t agree it was all to feed the ego of a ruler. Every theory has some kind of ulterior motive and “keeping people busy for its own sake” is one of the perennial favorites.
Perhaps what is being called unions was in fact guilds. Guilds developed power over more than a milleneum in Europe. The Masons started out as the guild of workers who built the great cathedrals of Europe. Guilds often had a hereditary inheritance component as well as a detailed apprenticeship for new workers.
The Egyptians probably had a solid core of trained workers, supplemented by farmers during periods of the year when they could not farm, like when the Nile flooded. Since they were needed to grow food it would not have made sense to mistreat and kill them.