Practice question · Put in order
Put the shape of an Intermediate Period in order.
- Central authority fragments
- Nomarchs act independently in the provinces
- Egypt reassembles with the same theology, script, and kingship
- The unified state ceases to function
Hints
- Central authority weakens before regions assert themselves.
- The remarkable step is the reconstitution afterwards.
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- Central authority fragments
- Nomarchs act independently in the provinces
- The unified state ceases to function
- Egypt reassembles with the same theology, script, and kingship
Why
It happens three times, and the fourth step is the achievement. Not that Egypt never collapsed, that it kept re-forming into the identical shape afterward.
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