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I have come across it in Crash Course World History. It is at 5 minute and 39 second. Here it goes:
The thinking was that if humans did their jobs, then the pantheon of gods would maintain cosmic order, and since the pharaohs became gods upon their death, it made sense to please them even unto pyramids.
I cannot get what please them unto means. Could you please rephrase the sentence for me please?
In this context even unto means all the way to the extent of something, or the extreme of doing something. We find this in the King James Bible, speaking of the humility of Jesus Christ:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:8)
The meaning there is that Christ's obedience was so great that he would obey even if meant his death.
