Rome incorporates Egypt earlier?

I believe that is more or less a western bias.

That is the Egyptian royal practice even before the Ptolemies. To them that is normal. Since their civilization is older than us, who we are we to say that is abnormal when they were practicing that when we were all barbarians.

If you look at it, our practices are probably the ones abnormal to them. It is like a difference between a society that accepts only monogamy and society that accepts polygamy.

Except there is completely objective genetic reasons why heavy duty incest in an absolute monarchy is terrible practice. Longstanding cultural differences doesn't actually make something a worthwhile idea.
 
Egypt was never one dynasty. One will eventually replace the other one. The ptolemies were ruling for only 200 years upon the time period. The hapsburgs were ruling more than that when that those started appearing.

Besides, the pharaoh was not in monogamy marriage not unlike the hapsburgs. So genetical deformities will be faster with the hapsburgs and issues are slower with the hapsburgs.

Except that only makes sense if Egypt exists in a vacuum, like in the early Egyptian era where they where basically unrivaled locally. As time goes by though other powers will catch up with egypts headstart. And as we saw, a system that naturally declines means that outside forces are entirely capable of exploiting that decline for their own purposes.
 

Redhand

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I agree.

Egypt was just plague with bad leaders compared to Rome during timeperiod. If they had somewhat parity leadership, Egypt could have resisted Rome indefinitely due to its resource base.

I wonder what happens if we have Ancient Egypt until modern day.

The Egyptians may have had cash and decent manpower but they were laughably inferior militarily. The Egyptian army was essentially a successor state's typical phalanx heavy force (except with ethnic and class tension) which were shown to be inferior to the Polybian legion on multiple occasions, so it stands to reason that the Marian Legions would absolutely destroy them. Even with decent leadership, they would be eviscerated in open battle with the Romans and quickly learn that their siege defense tactics were also ineffective.

In terms of navies, the Roman fleet would have the resources of almost the entire maritime Hellenized world to augment their efforts. This would go badly for the Egyptians.
 
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