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Welcome back to the Egyptian History podcast.

Episode 16, The Indestructible Spirit.

When Jedkare came to power, the Egyptian political landscape was a very different entity

than it had been 60 years earlier.

The kingdom was now governed by officials drawn from the elite families,

whose power and wealth had increased enough that they were building their own lavish tombs

and recording their achievements. In the reign of Neusuray, these developments had really crystallized,

and the new king could probably have sat back and enjoyed the fruits

of a prosperous kingdom without worrying too much about reformation. But Jedkaray enacted several

more shake-ups to the kingdom's government structure. To begin with, he enacted a general

reorganization of many administrative officers.

Instead of allowing regions of the kingdom to be overseen by various men, who dealt with

several responsibilities at once, Jedkare made each position responsible for one job at a time. This specialization had two effects.

Firstly, it made the various jobs much easier for one man to tackle, and secondly, it made the

administrators less likely to gather too much power into their own hands.

When there were more officials scattered throughout the kingdom, any single individual

was less important than the whole, and the power of each person was restricted.

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