Decline
Though it is acknowledged the Naqada II and Early Dynastic cultures borrowed abundantly from Mesopotamia, the Dynastic Race Theory is no longer an accepted thesis in the field of Predynastic Archaeology. While there does not appear to exist a clean break in the indigenous material culture between Naqada I and Naqada II to indicate that the native culture was supplanted by invaders, the relatively high level of genetic differentiation sustained over this time period does suggest the process of state formation, though mainly an indigenous process, may have occurred in association with in-migration to the Abydos region of the Nile Valley. Such borrowings are much older than the Naqada II period, the Naqada II period had a large degree of continuity with the Naqada I period, and the changes which did happen during the Naqada periods happened over significant amounts of time. The Dynastic Race theory has been largely replaced by the theory that Egypt was a hydraulic empire.
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