El surgimiento del Estado egipcio y sus periferias: Nubia y Palestina en perspectiva

CAMPAGNO, MARCELO

Relaciones de intercambio entre Egipto y el Mediterráneo Oriental (IV-I Milenio A.C.)

Biblos

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2001; p. 33 - 57

The emergence of Egyptian State introduced a remarkable set of changes in the social organization of the inhabitants of the Nile Valley between the First Cataract and the Delta. Beyond this area, both Nubia and Palestine felt the effects of the State practice, even though they were not integrated in the space politically controlled by the Egyptian State. Certainly, the increase of exchange practices, the settlement of Egyptian ?colonies? and the military raids directed by the Egyptians were the main effects introduced by the State in its peripheries. Why did the expansion of the Egyptian State stop in the First Cataract and the Delta and did not incorporate Nubia and Palestine into its political realm? The principal reason could be ideological: both Nubia and Palestine could have been seen as marginal lands in a cosmic sense, useful for providing prestige goods to the Egyptian elite but outside the properly Egyptian world.