Why was the Egyptian Old Kingdom the first and only large state in the world for centuries until the Akkadian Empire?
Why was the Egyptian Old Kingdom the first and only large state in the world for centuries until the Akkadian Empire?
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Because the river delta.
Also tourism.
It's irritating that libs accept geographic explanations for ancient history then modern history is given some bullshit economic political reasons.
>Also tourism
Who the hell was touring the Old Kingdom, Proto-Berbers?
Slaves and whoever was there.
i think tourists have to voluntarily be in a particular location
Finns and Koreans
me
>tourism
>tourism
What's your problem?
he had an ego destroying meltdown like a year ago because his shitty WE WUZ ACKTUHALLY REALLY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED west african threads kept getting shit on for being pseudoscience so now he spams LULZ in rage every day
>tourism
>tourism
I think there may be truth to the things he says, I think he probably just said tourism as a meme here
He got really close on one point: the river
desert on two sides and a narrow straight on the other, and a tiny strip of highly arable flood plains. Early on at least, Egypt was far less vulnerable to outside invasion than Mesopotamia, and it was far easier for a central authority to control. One warlord with river boats could control and exact tribute from a large strip of land and you can't avoid him without going out into the desert.
>One warlord with river boats could control and exact tribute from a large strip of land
Something interesting, Pharaoh's would actually do 'river cruises' when they came to power as a form of touring their country to let everybody see him.
There was also the Bell Beaker empire which was arguablt the largest state in the third millennium BC
Proofs that Bell Beakers had an "empire"?
Their culture was identical everywhere
That doesn't mean they had a unified polity, much less an "empire."
There is no proof there was a state
>Bell Beaker empire
He's right. We just don't know what they called themselves.
Proofs?
Unironically because it was initially a gathering of all the hunter gatherers who were chilling in Northern Africa when it was still green
Its dey culcha
>Kingdom
Who cares? There were plenty of those till the Akkadian empire came
>First and only large state
By definition it was empire and the first
> The earliest known empire appeared in southern Egypt sometime around 3200 BC. Southern Egypt was divided by three kingdoms each centered on a powerful city. Hierapolis conquered the other two cities over two centuries, and later grew into the country of Egypt.[23] The Akkadian Empire, established by Sargon of Akkad (24th century BC), was an early all-Mesopotamian empire. This imperial achievement was repeated by Hammurabi of Babylon in the 17th century BC.
Also, early dynastic extended into canaan and nubia and was trans continental
https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Egypt/The-Early-Dynastic-period-c-2925-c-2575-bce
>no source
Because lack of enemies aside from lowly sand peoples that can easily be dealt with, and a river viable for large-scale farming and one that can feed a population. It was even the breadbasket of the Roman Empire.
Because pre-BAC history is a black hole.