Um, this is exactly what happened in Egypt& #39;s First Intermediate Period. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😳" title="Flushed face" aria-label="Emoji: Flushed face"> https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1249795709274071041">https://twitter.com/HoarseWis...
"States" in ancient Egypt were called Nomes, led by the equivalent of Governors. Power started flowing to the nomes earlier in the Old Kingdom but by Dyn. 6, the Nomarchs were really asserting their power and by FIP, massive control.
We& #39;re seeing the collapse of Egypt& #39;s Old Kingdom, sped up 50x. I wrote a several chapters in my book Archaeology From Space about it, if you are interested https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/science/sarah-parcak-space-archaeology.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/0...
Sarah Parcak Thinks We Need to Learn From the Fall of Egypt’s Old Kingdom

In a new book, the archaeologist makes the case that ancient history illuminates solutions to modern problems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/science/sarah-parcak-space-archaeology.html
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