Old musket are heavier and their bullets where a bit slower and less powerfull.
Thoreau meant B) No shanty comes close to as poor as mine.
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Henry David Thoreau was a famous American poet and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden. Not only essayist, he was also an advocate of civil liberties.
David Thoreau is a transcendentalist. He doesn’t have any religious beliefs but understands life relationships. According to Thoreau, life becomes easy if the demands are less. He believes that one’s demand for unwanted things causes stress in life.
The phrase “this is a dozen times as poor” used by Thoreau meant No shanty comes close to as poor as mine.
Theocracy is the opposite of the separation of Church and Government: it means that the rule in the country is connected to religion.
Pharaoh was the ruler of the country - equivalent to a king, but also he was a priest (the highest priest in the country) and often a God. This means that he took all the administrative and political decisions, but also the religious decisions in the country.
This also meant that the rule of the Pharaoh could not be challenged as it has a divide origin.