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Memory and Survival

May 30, 2010 - 5:34 am - by Richard Fernandez
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2010-05-30 17:12:43

Let me add, that Ancient Egypt, with very inefficient Pharoahism, survived for approximately 3,000 years or so, relatively intact culturally and politically and economically, despite a stagnant technology and horrific bureaucracy.

Because it was blessed with mono-ethnism and the Nile River, up which it could retreat when hard pressed and with the isolating desert protecting it by both sides.