First Intermediate Period
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Was a period of weak central power in Ancient Egypt.
Chronology
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January 2215 BC: During the reign of Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare, Nubia became again indipendent from Egypt.
January 2169 BC: The First Intermediate Period was a dynamic time in which rule of Egypt was roughly equally divided between two competing power bases. One of the bases was at Heracleopolis in Lower Egypt, a city just south of the Faiyum region, and the other was at Thebes, in Upper Egypt.
January 2024 BC: The Theban ruler Mentuhotep II, after his rise around 2025 B.C., reunited Lower and Upper Egypt.
Selected Sources
Edwards, I.E.S. / Gadd, C.J. / Hammond, N.G.L. (2008): The Cambridge Ancient History, 3rd ed., Vol. I, Part 2, Cambridge University Press, pp. 195-196
Gardiner, Alan (1961) Egypt of the Pharaohs (Oxford University Press), 107–109.
Szpakowska, K. (2007): Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, John Wiley & Sons, p.4
