Imperialism—in everyday terminology it is when one country or political organization has rule and influence over another political or social group. We see imperialism here in the context of Egypt and Nubia, as well as in more recent European history. An important distinction is also that imperialism implies control over another culture from a distance. Egyptians did not move to Nubia, instead exerted a great deal of economic control over Nubia—mainly from a distance. In his piece, Adams writes about Egyptian expansion into Africa as well as the establishment of trade relations. Early on, these relations were not perfectly planned and executed. Adams even described the old kingdom as a time of “intermittent and largely uncoordinated Egyptian