The Old Kingdom of Egypt did not collapse, but rather transitioned to the First Intermediate Period where local rulers governed their districts directly and wealth became more widespread.
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Many scholars today no longer see the end of the Old Kingdom as a 'collapse' so much as a transition to the new paradigm of the First Intermediate Period, when local rulers governed their districts directly and the kind of wealth previously only available to nobility became more widespread.
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