9 sentences with “bureaucracy”

The kings created a professional army, a caste of scribes and a bureaucracy.

Historically, bureaucracy was one of the most important "technologies" that early civilisations developed.

- Bureaucracy: although it may seem a prosaic subject, bureaucracy was and still is the most effective way of organising large groups of people.

Fortunately for the Egyptian state, however, the backbone of day-to-day politics was the huge bureaucracy that was composed of the scribal class.

The major focus of Assyrian taxation and bureaucracy was to keep the army funded and trained, which allowed them to completely dominate their neighbours for over a century.

Darius I also established a uniform bureaucracy and system of government throughout the empire to standardise taxation and make clear what was expected of the subject areas.

The most important historical legacy of the Ur III dynasty was its complex system of bureaucracy, which was more effective in governing conquered cities than Sargon's rule had been.

An efficient bureaucracy, in which the individual people within it were less important than the system itself (i.e. its rules, its records and its chain of command), was always essential in large political units.

Pyramid building itself was the impetus behind the massive expansion of bureaucracy in the Old Kingdom, as the state became synonymous with the diversion and redistribution of resources needed to maintain a huge mobilised workforce.