Considered one of the world’s earliest examples of a pristine state, the ancient Egyptian state arose by ca. 3000 BC. State formation in Egypt became a focus of much research in the 1970s and 1980s, as investigations of the Predynastic period in Egypt, when complex society arose there, began to uncover new evidence of the indigenous roots of this phenomenon. More recently, archaeological investigations in the Delta as well as continued work in southern Egypt have provided new evidence for the changes that took place in the fourth millennium BC. But the specific events and processes involved in this major sociopolitical and economic transformation and the resultant state still remain incompletely understood. To better understand the problem in Egypt, this study looks at the contrasting polities in fourth millennium BC Egypt and Nubia from the perspective of the political economy and the strategies to power proposed by the dual-processual theory, which also helps elucidate processes of state formation and the type of early state that developed there. The territorial expansionist model helps explain where and when this state first emerged.

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埃及王朝前的政治经济与早期国家的形成

被认为是世界上最原始国家的最早例子之一，古埃及国大约在公元前一年出现。西元前3000年。埃及的国家形成在1970年代和1980年代成为许多研究的焦点，当时对埃及前朝时期的调查（当时复杂的社会在那兴起）开始发现这种现象的根源的新证据。最近，三角洲地区的考古调查以及埃及南部的持续工作为公元前四千年发生的变化提供了新的证据。但是，这一重大的社会政治和经济转型以及由此产生的状态所涉及的具体事件和过程仍未完全理解。为了更好地了解埃及的问题，这项研究从政治经济学和双重过程理论提出的权力战略的角度考察了公元前四千年埃及和努比亚的政治对比，这也有助于阐明国家形成的过程和发展起来的早期国家的类型。那里。领土扩张主义模型有助于解释这种状态首次出现的时间和地点。