Test: Ancient History: Egypt

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Which of the following reasons is NOT commonly used as one of the factors to explain the collapse of the Old Kingdom and the beginning of the First Intermediate Period?

External pressure as a result of constant invasions from Nubian tribes from the south

The rise in power of the hereditary monarchs, who gradually acquired most sovereign powers at the expense of the Pharaoh, resulting in a highly decentralized state

The emergence of the competing power bases of Thebes and Heracleopolis, each with its own corresponding line of kings

The decades-long reign of Pharaoh Pepi II, the last king of the Sixth Dynasty, who outlived most of his natural heirs and therefore left an unstable succession and power structure

Less productive agricultural yields and a dry climate as a result less frequent flooding of the Nile

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