First middle period
First middle period
| With the VII dynasty there was the first middle period, a theatre of
successive inner battles. The events of the VII dynasty, as those of the
following one (VIII dynasty) are rather obscure: both had their place in Menfi
and reigned in total only for twenty-five years, during which the governors, for
the progressive weakening of he central power, acquired the full control on its
districts and obtained by the pharaohs the hereditary transmission of the
offices. In fact, under the IX and the X dynasty, the local lords of the nearby
Eracleopoli region imposed their power in the north up to Menfi and to the delta
of the Nile, and in the south to Asyut. The rivals of the Tebe region founded
the XI dynasty, who reigned in the area between Abido and Elefantina, near the
Assuan of today. The first period of this dynasty (the first one in the middle reign) was superimposed on the last one of the X. |
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