Practice question · Multiple choice
Egypt's three Intermediate Periods each ended with the same institutions restored. What does that repeated recovery indicate?
Hints
- Ask who still knew how to run a granary, a temple and a tax roll during the collapse.
- The state fell. What survived it?
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D. That the institutions were carried in a scribal culture
Why
A trained scribal class and a shared religious framework preserved the instructions for the state, so reassembly was a matter of reactivating a template rather than inventing one. It is why Egypt's collapses read as interruptions and the Bronze Age collapse further north reads as an ending.
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