“The flowering of early civilization in Egypt was the result of major transformations both in socio-

“The flowering of early civilization in Egypt was the result of major transformations both in socio-political and economic organization and ideology. That such transformations were successful in the Early Dynastic Period is truly remarkable, given that contemporaneous polities elsewhere in the Near East were much smaller in territory and population. That this state was successful for a very long time—a total of about 800 years until the end of the Old Kingdom—is in part due to the enormous potential of cereal agriculture on the Nile floodplain, but it is also a result of Egyptian organizational skills and the stronglydeveloped institution of kingship.”— The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, by Ian Shaw -- source link

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