Graeber / Wengrow 379: The term "collapse" "tends to be used indiscriminately for situations like the Classic Maya collapse, which did indeed involve a rapid abandonment of some hundreds of settlements and the disappearance of millions of people; but equally it's used for the 'collapse' of the Egyptian Old Kingdom, where the only thing that really seems to have declined precipitously is the power of Egypt's elites ruling from the northern city of Memphis" (379)