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To: SunkenCiv

Professor Brier says those long reigns were usually followed by a collapse, because the Pharoah was too old to keep the state functioning, but couldn’t be replaced until he died.


21 posted on 01/13/2014 4:25:09 AM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: Tax-chick

If that were true, it would have happened after Pharaoh Pepi (reigned over 80 years), after the long reign of Rameses II “the Great”, etc — Brier has it wrong, it’s typical for the longer reigning monarchs, pharaohs, emperors, etc to be at the beginning. It’s not foolproof of course, but e.g. Elizabeth I of England left no heir of her body; her heir was her cousin James.


25 posted on 01/13/2014 3:56:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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