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Egypt’s Middle Kingdom

Tides of History

CHAPTER

The End of the Old Kingdom

The old kingdom, as i mentioned earlier, lasted for a long time. It came to an end around the middle of the 20 second century b c, 21 50 b c or so. The archaeological record doesn't point to anything like a full blown disintegration of egyptian society. Rather than a full social collapse, the end of the old kingdom was really just the end of centralized government.

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