Scholar
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Opinion
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Quote
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O’Connor
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Partial breakdown in political and social structure during Reign of Merenptah
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“…after Merenptah…there may have been a partial breakdown of political and social stability”
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Callender
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Partial breakdown in political and social structure continued from 18th Dyn.
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“the lawlessness which Horemheb tried to combat still existed when Seti was Pharaoh”
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Wilson
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Word of the King was no longer respected (by the time of Seti I) {opinion based on Seti I’s decrees}
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“…it would seem that the word of the King no longer had the same effectiveness in maintaining order…”
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Tyldesley
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During reign of Seti I, there was a growing influence of and corruption within other administrative offices {also in response to Seti I’s decrees}
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“It seems that the divine assets needed to be protected as much, in not more from the grasping hands of the tax-collectors, harem officials, local mayors and inspectors as from the common criminal”
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O’Connor
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Attributes decline of 20th Dyn. to increased power of individuals
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“a final index to the disintegration of the traditional government was the granting of extraordinary combined powers to individuals”
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O’Connor
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More specifically, he attributes decline of 20th Dyn. to Military officers
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“(although) the political weakness of the religious system should be noted…military officers, not priests were responsible for the final division of New Kingdom Egypt in two units”
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