End of the Old Kingdom

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• relationship Provincial elites and officials — involved or associated with — Late Old Kingdom political and economic change
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• date assertion Late Old Kingdom political and economic change — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• event Late Old Kingdom political and economic change
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• relationship Late Old Kingdom political and economic change — occurred at or involved — Memphis
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• relationship Late Old Kingdom political and economic change — occurred at or involved — Elephantine
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• relationship Pepi I — involved or associated with — Late Old Kingdom political and economic change
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• relationship Pepi II — involved or associated with — Late Old Kingdom political and economic change
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing explanations · Abstract and causes discussion

  Supports uncertainty and multiple proposed causes.

• causal hypothesis Multicausal Old Kingdom transition
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · reviews competing mechanisms · Causes and controversy

  Supports model family.

• property First Intermediate Period
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · defines and contextualizes · End of Old Kingdom and historiographic discussion

  Supports the definition and its limits.

• entity First Intermediate Period
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · defines period · Chronological overview and period discussion

  Defines the period and its qualifications.

• date assertion First Intermediate Period — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · defines period · Chronological overview and period discussion

  Defines the period and its qualifications.

• property assignment First Intermediate Period — classified as — First Intermediate Period
  Evidence confidence: ◈ near certain
  supports · supports assignment · Period definition

  Supports classification.

• date assertion Old Kingdom — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  supports · supports chronology model · Disputed end boundary

  Supports the model and its uncertainty.

• claim The end of the Old Kingdom cannot be securely reduced to one cause such as drought, a single weak ruler, provincial independence or invasion.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports claim · Causes and controversy

  Supports the claim and its qualifications.

• claim Climate and Nile-flood variability can affect Egyptian systems but cannot be assumed to cause political transitions without regionally matched chronology and mechanism.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports claim · Climatic and internal causal proposals

  Supports the claim and its qualifications.

• ranked model modelset_egyfull_old_kingdom_end
  supports · supports ranking · Review of causes and controversy

  Supports multicausal uncertainty.

• relationship Old Kingdom Memphite court and administrative system — fragmented into regional formations — Herakleopolitan royal formation
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship · Old Kingdom end and regional kingdoms

  Supports political sequence, overlap or conflict.

• relationship Old Kingdom Memphite court and administrative system — fragmented into regional formations — Theban Dynasty 11 kingdom
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship · Old Kingdom end and Theban emergence

  Supports political sequence, overlap or conflict.