Yes, a totally religious authoritarian system (Theocracy) based on cheap labor (slavery).
You want to go back there, really? You believe that system offered freedom? To whom?
Don’t you see that you are constantly contradicting yourself?
Did Egypt’s Old Kingdom Die—or Simply Fade Away?
As world leaders celebrate a new agreement to limit the impact of greenhouse gases on human society, archaeologists have been taking a fresh look at one of the most dramatic instances of a civilization confronted with devastating climate change.
For nearly a millennium, Egypt’s early pharaohs presided over a prosperous and wealthy state that built countless temples and palaces, enormous public works, and the famous Giza pyramids. Much of that prosperity depended on the regular inundations of the Nile River in a country that otherwise would be only desert.
A copper statue of Pepi I still flashes limestone-and-obsidian eyes. The pharaoh’s pyramid was looted during a chaotic time scholars call the First Intermediate Period.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KENNETH GARRETT, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Then, around 2200 B.C., ancient texts suggest that Egypt’s so-called Old Kingdom gave way to a disastrous era of foreign invasions, pestilence, civil war, and famines severe enough to result in cannibalism. In the past decade, climate data revealed that a severe and long-term drought afflicted the region during this same time, providing evidence of an environmental trigger that led to what has long been considered a dark age of Egyptian history.