State · 2040 – 1782 BCE
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
A state of 2040 – 1782 BCE — 258 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed First Intermediate Period of Egypt. It was followed by Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 47 people, 10 with dated terms. Its own article says it was replaced.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 258 years
- 2040 BCE – 1782 BCE
- Rulers
- 47
- the Pharaoh
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
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
- First Intermediate Period of Egypt · follows · 2181 – 2055 BCE
After it
- Second Intermediate Period of Egypt · followed by
How it ended, as its article says
Replaced. Read from the article's section “Political history - Decline into the Second Intermediate Period” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
But when the unity of Egypt fully disintegrated, the Middle Kingdom gave way to the Second Intermediate Period.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
46 terms are shared from [object Object].
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentuhotep II | 2010 BCE – 2010 BCE | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Mentuhotep III · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 2010 BCE – 2001 BCE | 9 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Amenemhat I · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 1977 BCE – 1947 BCE | 30 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Senusret I · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 1947 BCE – 1911 BCE | 36 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Amenemhat II · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 1911 BCE – 1879 BCE | 32 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Senusret II · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 1879 BCE – 1872 BCE | 7 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Senusret III · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 1872 BCE – 1853 BCE | 19 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Amenemhat III · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 1853 BCE – 1806 BCE | 47 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Amenemhat IV · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 1806 BCE – 1798 BCE | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Sobekneferu · from the line of Ancient Egypt | 1798 BCE – 1793 BCE | 5 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
47 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 2010 BCE – 1793 BCE. Median reign 14 years. 0 of 9 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
2100 BCE – 2001 BCE1 row
- Senusret II · ruler · 2001 – 1901 BCE
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 stood258 years
stood longer than 69% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- 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.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median19 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 59% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record47
has more rulers on record than 97% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 3 results, 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.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 2066 BCE – 1756 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1911 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 Q191324 (CC0) · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.