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 | | This might of the viziers, dependent on their royal masters, waned during the First Intermediate Period, and the nomarchs exploited the weakness of the central government to extend their own power. |
 | | Powerful as the viziers were, they rarely supplanted kings, for reasons which may have been partly due to personal loyalty, to social and religious reasons, but certainly also to the balance of power which existed between civil service, priesthood and armed forces during normal times. |
 | | The vizier was head of most branches of civil government, but some officials had more independence than others, like the treasurer or the superintendent of the granaries, who were the vizier's colleagues rather than his subordinates. |
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