State · 2181 – 2055 BCE
First Intermediate Period of Egypt
A state of 2181 – 2055 BCE — 126 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Old Kingdom of Egypt. It was followed by Middle Kingdom of Egypt. Its line of rulers holds 15 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 126 years
- 2181 BCE – 2055 BCE
- Rulers
- 15
- the pharaoh
- Most ground
- 93,900 km²
- in 2100 BCE
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Old Kingdom of Egypt · follows · 2707 – 2216 BCE
After it
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt · followed by · 2040 – 1782 BCE
Rulers
The line of pharaoh.
15 terms are shared from [object Object].
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|
15 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
93,900 km² in 2091 BCE, 93,900 km² in 2055 BCE; at its largest 93,900 km² in 2091 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood126 years
stood longer than 51% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held93,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 44% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record15
has more rulers on record than 88% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 5 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 126
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 2194 BCE – 2042 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2100 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q232211 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.