What was pre-dynastic Egypt like just before the Pharoahs started their empire building?

Question

What was pre-dynastic Egypt like just before the Pharaohs started their empire-building?

A. Highly mobile hunter-gatherers only occasionally stopping to fish on the Nile

B. Highly mobile pastoralists (herders) only

C. Primarily a Neolithic farming society with domesticates imported from the Fertile Crescent

D. Primarily a Neolithic farming society with independently domesticated plants and animals

E. Series of competing chiefdom-like societies based on abundant hunter-gathering

Answer 1

Agriguclutre laid the foundation of the Egyptian Empire, as is the case with almost all Empires (Before 3150 BC). There were many separate groups of people with different cultures in this Neolithic period. These groups were highly centralized near the Nile.

They were hunter gathers at some point but not in the time phrase leading up to dynasties. (Not A)

Not E because they were not hunter gatherers.

They were pastoral, but not mobile(Not B)

They were likely choice D, independent groups of people who grew their crops.

Im actually not sure about C. They may have traded with cultures from the fertile crescent, but the agricultural civilizations established near the Nile were definitely the main way of life pre Egyptian Dynasties.