Practice question · Multiple choice
Nomarchs grow powerful precisely during the Intermediate Periods. Why does provincial strength track central weakness so reliably?
Hints
- Ask who is collecting the grain when the centre cannot.
- Did the capacity vanish, or change hands?
Show the answer
A. Because the same capacity supports whoever can collect it
Why
Egyptian "collapse" is usually redistribution. The apparatus of extraction outlives the failure of the office at the top, and the local officeholder inherits it.
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