Stages of the formation of the state in ancient Egypt.

Second half of the 4th millennium BC NS. The first state institutions – nomes – were formed on the lands of Ancient Egypt. The impetus for their emergence was also the development of irrigated agriculture: rural communities were grouped at temples for the general conduct of irrigation work. Noms, at the time of the creation of a single kingdom on the territory of Egypt, were about forty. They initially united into a pair of independent states – Upper Egypt (the so-called Southern) and Lower Egypt.
At the end of the IV millennium BC. NS. the rulers of Upper Egypt captured and subjugated all of Egypt under their rule.