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Old Kingdom

Stunning advances in architecture, art and technology, made during the Old Kingdom, fueled by increased agricultural productivity made possible by a well developed central administration. Under the direction of the vizier, state officials collected taxes, coordinated irrigation projects to improve crop yields, farmers prepared to work on construction projects and the implementation of the criminal justice system in order to maintain peace and order. With the surplus resources made available by a productive and stable economy, the state was able to sponsor construction of colossal monuments and the Committee on exceptional works of art from the royal workshops. The pyramids built by Djoser, Khufu, and their descendants are the most memorable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization and the power of the pharaohs, which it controlled.

With the growing importance of the central administration, a new class of scribes and educated officials who received the property by the pharaoh in payment for their services. Pharaohs and their land grants to local cults and mortuary temples to ensure that these institutions do not have the necessary resources to worship the pharaoh after his death. At the end of the Old Kingdom, five centuries of these feudal practices had destroyed the economic power of the pharaoh, who could no longer afford to support large centralized. Since power reduces the Pharaoh, governors called nomarchs begun to question the supremacy of the pharaoh. This, coupled with drought from 2200 to 2150 BC, eventually led the country to enter the 140-year period of starvation and struggle known as the First Intermediate Period.

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Comment on: edlug recent research Sphinx is older than the pyramids. Number of the pyramid of Khufu (Khufu) is also good. It is not a tomb - they never found the mummy there. Even more interesting was probably not built by the pharaoh. He made it to forge your name on existing buildings. The practice mentioned in discussing the temple at Karnak. Pyramids themselves are also, according to archeological part, much older than it formally adopts the