Thinnite Confederacy

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The Thinnite Confederacy in speculative Egyptology was a tribal confederation in Ancient Egypt that helped unite Lower Egypt circa 3100 BC. The leaders of the Thinnite Confderacy were most likely tribal nobles. Based at the city Thinis, the Thinnite Confederacy would later be incorporated into the combined Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt.

The evidence of "the Thinnite Confederacy" is mostly speculative and in part relies on Manetho. Modern Egyptologists have a number of competing hypotheses to explain conjectured "proto-dynastic" events that presumably led to the unification under the First Dynasty. Many scholars today mention evidence for a "Dynasty 0" that preceded the First Dynasty, and some even speak of a "Dynasty 00" attested only in the Abydos-Thinis area, that might correspond to a theoretical "Thinnite Confederacy". The terms "Dynasty 0" and especially "Dynasty 00" are widely seen as playful, but are frequently used nonetheless in lieu of a more agreed-upon term. In archaeological terms, this is referred to as the Naqada III period.

In the computer game Pharaoh and Cleopatra, one of the mission campaigns is to build a city to house the capitol of the Thinnite Confederacy.