I agree that the prose style in the paragraph is lacking, if only a little. For instance the sentance "those whose entire culture assumed they were a god, such as with the pharaohs" could easily be condensed to,"those who were culturally assumed to be gods, such as Egyptian pharoahs" and to be entirely accurate (pun) I would have to add the pre-Columbian Meso-American kings to that phrase, and any other "God-kings'. In removing the word "entire" we remove any subjectivity. Was every single person in Egypt under the impression the pharoah was a god? Even the poor bastard who had to carry his stool out to dispose of it? More than likely not. As I pointed out above, the title is merely unweildy and very, well, elementary to the impartial observer.