China, having monarchy as their form of government, was ruled by many different dynasties. In Egypt, the pharaoh was the supreme ruler. Egyptologists believe the people of Egypt considered the pharaoh to be half man/half God. The type of government in ancient Egypt was a theocracy. A good number of the people carrying out the Pharaoh's decrees were priests and holy men.
The world's oldest dad has been left devastated after his wife left him - just days before his youngest son's first birthday. Ramajit Raghav hit the headlines in 2010 when he claimed to be the oldest man in the world to father a child. Incredibly he then went on to father a second child last year.
Born on July 6, 1899, in Lowndes County, Alabama, Susannah Mushatt Jones (right) has lived in parts of three centuries, according to Guinness World Records. Jones is the oldest living person at 116. Guinness officially recognized Jones as the oldest recorded person on the planet last month after 116-year-old Jeralean Talley died in suburban Detroit. The oldest living person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122. Jones attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington was an original member of the schoolâs Board of Trustees, according to the New York City Housing Authority.