>>9425439It was a European thing.
Elites were sent to different parts of the world to lead the peoples there.
There seems to have been a network of elite families as early as Bronze Age I.
Could even be pre-historic.
For example, the 'Gaffer' (skeleton found) in charge of building Stonehenge was from Switzerland (region of).
Amenemhet III was clearly European, even specifically North West European.