pharaoh

> (Caesar, Pharaoh and later Zeus) wow - didn't even realize there was one after Pharaoh.

The Egyptians believed that a life of drudgery in service to the pharaoh would continue into the next existence.

As the pharaoh of Egypt, he had the power to turn his completely original vision into reality.

There's the Caesar & Pharaoh series which does something along those lines, albeit with ancient cities.

So yeah, it's expensive and hard and unless you're the Pharaoh doesn't serve much purpose.

Some of the Pyramid Texts of the 5th and 6th Dynasties (about 2400 BCE) --especially Utterance 373 for the Pharaoh Teti-- are quite beautiful.

This is like discovering a pharaoh's tomb for data viz.

A pharaoh has his pick of anyone he wants.

I played those city-building games back then (Caesar, Pharaoh and later Zeus).

I'm not so sure that the pharaoh in the background was impressed.

Do we know how much power the Pharaoh had in practice?

I know they weren't technically slaves, but it's not like they really needed those when the Pharaoh could basically invoke anyone in Egypt to work on his Pyramid.

At one time, Egyptian Vultures were so common, they were nicknamed "The Pharaoh's Chickens[1]." Wish these guys had a PayPal or some other easy way for those of us outside of India to donate to their cause.

With a king, a feudal lord or a pharaoh you can see the "class" thing and the exploitation immediately -- why think that with a modern man that has 1000x times the money and resources of his fellow citizens it's any different?

Sim City (or Caesar III, Pharaoh) allowed me to learn how to manage a city, but also to imagine stories.

He rose to become a sort of chancellor to the Pharaoh.

And I believe Children of the Nile, which is something of a spiritual sequel to Pharaoh, also tracked individual citizens as agents.