Government

Government - China
Emperors at the time were more **dictators** than fair rulers. Most decisions taken by them were beneficial for them but not their population. It didn't matter in which area the decisions were taken if it was economy, governance or agriculture which was the life of his (emperors) people, but not all kings were like him the first king of China Shang Tang was a good ruler who thought of his people and what was good for them.

Xia Dynasty
The Xia Dynasty started with the Reign of the lengendary Yu the great (the throne wsa given to him by Shun), and ended when they fell to Shang Tang of the Shang Dynasty who overthrew The Emperor Jie who was the last ruler of the Xia Dynasty. Lasting for more than 400 years. Overall they had 17 kings over 14 generations, as well as Di Xin (last ruler from the Shang Dynast) Jie was a horrible emperor who thought of himself only. He took the money from all his population to build Palaces and Pavillons that only he was able to access. He made his population suffer massively, and finally he forced people to go to war. But his population felt only one thing towards Jie. Hate. People fled in large numbers, even his guards wished him...Dead. Although it might mean it was the end for themselves.

A man named Shang Tang freed the population by seizing the opportunity. They alll had already suffered for 17 years, he overthrew Jie and became founded the Shang Dynasty and he became the first emperor of that Dynasty. This is were the Xia Dynasty ends.

Sovereigns/Kings of the Xia Dynasty:
Yu the great was the first king of the Xia Dynasty, but not only was he their first king but he was the founder of the Xia dynasty,he was a very important man for the Chinese Population, mainly because of the terrible floods that spread among China. It was an extremely hard task to complete but after an unimaginable amount of attempts to stop the floods he succeeded, but he also cared about his population. He thought of his population before he took decisions that were only good for him.
 * 1) Yu the Great:

2. Xie Xie was the ruler of the Xia Dynasty for 25 years. He was the tenth ruler of the Xia Dynasty. He gained power and trust by defeating the Feng Yang tribes. A bit more information on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xie_of_Xia

3. Jie I have given the main information about Jie on the first paragraph but for further information information visit: ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jie_of_Xia ** **Shang Dynasty** Before Dynasties became the rulers of China they fought for power and Shang Tang fought for 17 years before he overthrew The Emperor Jie who was the last ruler of the the Xia Dynasty. He was a good ruler unlike other kings, althouh he nver really was counted as the king of china* he always thought about what was the best for his people,he was an example for his people and he was succeeded by his Grandson Tai Jia when he passed away. The slave owning system caused problems among the people of the Shang Dynasty, because of the increase of the people who wanted to become king of China, and misery spread among China there was nothing the Shang Dynasty could do. It was the end of their reign. The Shang Dynasty's reign lasted for 17 generations and they had 31 kings who ruled China. The last 2 kings of the Shang Dynasty were Di Yi and Di Xin. Their Last King Di Xin was a dictator though he thought of nobody but himself, He was very cruel to his people. He set extremely harsh laws including means of torture, Oppressed and exploiting slaves and he even exploited his own people ( not slaves), he was the worse king the Shang Dynasty ever had.

Some poblems among the Shang Dynasty are that the actual Kings let members of their families govern parts of China which caused problems among the Chinese population, but the main problem is that different members of the family of the actual king raised their own army and used their armies to get people to give them their money and food.
 * He was recckonized as the Founder of theShang Dyasty**

Zhou Dynasty
The Zhou Dynasty is thought to have a feudal system to rule their country. They are the Dynasty that ruled China the longest, it is strongly possible that they are the Dynasty to rule China longer than any other government in theh world. However some rich families possesed fiefs. At that period of time in China kings were always accompanied by 3 dukes, the first king built 6 ministers to govern China, but of course the king carefully took notice of what was happening in all six ministries: Some poor families however were sent into smaller areas further away from the capital city of China at the time,ut as time passed cities and villages became independent, they no longer needed their king to watch what they were doing, and China became separated more and more into smaller and smaller fiefs and only the King could solve that problem that spread among China.
 * Ministry of state
 * Ministry of Civil Administration and Social welfare
 * Ministry of Rites
 * Ministry of War
 * Ministry of Justice
 * Ministry of Work

The Feudal system set by the first rulers of the Zhou Dynasty ecame a problem though because the Feudal Lords started to take over China. the King had no power over them anymore and they claimed themselves rulers of China.

The King of China ( at the time) led an Army to establish peace in China, but it was too late China was already completely divided. The Warring State period had started.

Sovereins of the Zhou Dynasty had a personal name and a "Royal" name. I will tell you their personal names for further information on their "Royal name go to the link below: []

**Government - Egypt** The first Pharaoh of Egypt was Menes, he united upper Egypt with lower Egypt by Conquering lower Egypt. Menes ruled Egypt from Memphis which was in lower Egypt. He was helped by 42 Nomarchs who each governed a province of Egypt, but they still had to make sure that Menes's commands were obeyed. In 2040 BC King Mentuhotep 2 reunited Egypt, and unlike Menes he ruled from the city of Thebes although his servants had had another capital made in at El Lisht.

From that time period and on Pharaohs of the 11th and 12th Dynasty took away the control of the Nomarchs on Egyptian provinces with the help of their population. The Egyptian population during the middle kingdom Fairness and Justice were very important to the population but there was no denying the rules of Pharaohs. Some rules were very difficult to follow for some people though, for example for some very special and important royal jubilee some diplomats and high priests had to attend. Egypt was invaded by Hyksos from Cannan,who had weapons that were much more effective but the Pharaoh Ahmose managed to defeat the Hyksos and reunited Egypt again.

Power of the Pharaohs[[image:Ramses.jpg width="196" height="342" align="right"]]
Pharaohs had power over all Egypt and everything and everybody belonged to him, the worse part of it is that they could do whatever they wanted to do with the population and objects. One Pharaoh that took a big advantage of that was Amenhotep the 5th, he included the worship of Aten. His name was no longer Amenhotep either it had become Akhenaten. The worst thing that he ever did to Egypt though was closing all temples. Forcing his own population to worship one God and no other. He then built a new capital called Akhenaten from where he ruled the country in a horrifying way.

His death was a relief to the Egyptian population and his successor Tutankhamun re-opened the temples that had been closed and brought back the old gods that Egyptians used to worship. Later on he made Thebes the capital of Egypt once again. Of 270 Pharaohs 3 - 4 of them were not men. One of them was Hatshepsut who ruled for 20 years although she had usurped the throne. The last Pharaoh of Egypt was also not a men. It was Cleopatra who originally was from Greece.

Ramses 2 had 2 temples that were made/carved out of cliffs from Abu Simbel. He had Pharaohs that came before engraved and member of his family. I believe that he had one temple for his family and one for Pharaohs that had come before him.

The End
During the middle of the 12th century BC, the Egyptian population lived under terrible conditions. Grain had become very scarce and so had food. They were later invaded by the "sea people". Ramses 3 was able to defeat them but the Pharaohs that successed him were not nearly as strong as him. In 1100 BC a civil war had began against both Libyans and Nubians. Priests of Herihor took advantage of what had happened and took power over Egypt. The Egyptian empire ended with the death of Ramses 6. Even after that the country was divided in 2 again. The south ruled by Herihor and the North by Libyans. Assyrians then invaded Egypt, then Persia, then Alexander the great took power over Egypt and after his death the Greeks ruled over Egypt for almost 300 years.

Egyptian Legend
It is said that Osiris and his Wife Isis once ruled Egypt but Seth the god of Storms and violence was jealous (he was Osiris's brother) so he killed Osiris. Isis then put the pieces of Osiris's body together and made the first mummy of Egypt.

Conclusion
== I think that both Governments were somehow a bit the same. They both had dictators but they also both had kings that thought about their population before they took decisions. China could have been a bit worse with their Horrible ruler Di Xin who included means of torture in his laws but Akhenaten or Amenhotep was also a horrible ruler who accepted only one religion. His laws were also very harsh and I think that if one of these 2 rulers hadn't ruled that way I would've said that this civilization had the best Government. Egypt also lost their pride. their kingdom in the end, but China didn't stop it continued and is still continuing to improve nowadays. I will say that China had the best Government at that time and still has a better one nowadays. I think that because what happened (for me) is that China had men power but the Government also met the needs of the people which Egypt couldn't do in the End. I also think that they are still better nowadays because their Government is still their while the Government in Egypt still didn't meet the need of their people like in the new kingdom of Egypt and so the population revolted themselves against the Government and forced him to leave. Although the problem was also that he had been ruling Egypt for 20 years. Overall China had the best Government. ==