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As an Egyptian, well yes and no. Egyptian history tends to suffer from "and then nothing happened for a few hundred years" syndrome so at least until the Islamic conquest a high-level understanding shouldn't take too much time. After the Islamic conquest you gotta deal with the monstrosity that is Arab Caliphate politics, which is... Uh... Yeah, and then you reach the Ottomans and again nothing happens for a few hundred years.
It's kind of what happens when for most of your history you're ruled by foreign empires; there's less potential for things to really go off the rails compared to the shitstorm that is American politics where you gotta think in 4 year intervals rather than 100 year intervals.