whiskey
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.








