Egypt and Western Asia in the Old Kingdom

Abstract

breakdown of urban economy. Central to the new concepts are the autonomous chief dom centred on a town in tribal territory and the seasonal migration of tribes located within the sedentary zone or on its fringe. * Scholarship is now for the most part fully aware of the complex symbiosis of city and pastoral community within its environs. What was true for the Fertile Crescent, however, did not apply to the Nile Valley. The traditional Egyptian view was that the nomad lay permanently beyond the pale, could offer nothing of value to Egypt, and by nature could not be lived with. The desert from which he came

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