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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [qb] The Delta actually started competing with the Valley's population around the time of this study (1250 B.C). 40% of Egypt lived in the Delta at that point. Wasn't that about 1,000 years before Ptolomeic Egypt? However compared to Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt, the figure nearly doubled. The Delta's population was only 24% of Egypt and nearly NO ONE lived in Faiyum. Only 6,000 people (less than one percent). Middle Kingdom saw a gradual increase of nearly 10 percent in the Delta(33%). The trend of population growth in the Delta would continue and by 150 B.C it eclipses the valley. Was the population growth since Predynastic Egypt mostly local or foreign in the Valley, Delta and Faiyum ? To what extent did nearby "Nubians" or Levanites contribute to upper and lower Egypt? [/qb][/QUOTE]Lower Egypt almost equalized with Upper Egypt very late into Dynastic Egyptian history. The Delta probably became capable of hosting a substantial population when the required advances necessary to drain the swamps and marshlands were developed and deployed. The far less significant Delta was likely demographically compromised very early on by Asiatics in the Levant. "Nubians" and Upper Egyptians were virtually identical. Nearly identical "Nubian" cultures like Ta-Seti were absorbed into Egypt -- becoming the first nome of Dynastic Egypt. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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