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Egypt
Old Kingdom
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Menes Dynasty – 3200 BCE
Pharoh – Royal family – Priest – Gov. –
Peasants
Pharaoh’s grow weaker at the end of the
Old Kingdom
Considered by some as the most creative
period
Pyramids 4,500 years old
Middle Kingdom
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Last for more than 3 centuries
1780 BCE – begun to fall, nobles and
priests fight for power
1760 BCE – endured increasing attacks by
foreign invaders
Farming and Trade
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Peasants did the
farming
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Wheat and Barley
Sea going ships –
Mediterrean, Red and
Aegean Seas
West Asia and south
into Africa
Education
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Bureaucracy – complex gov. civil servants
carry specialized task
Fathers teaching son how to read and
write
Middle Kingdom actual schools appear
Religion
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Nile – primary god
“Osiris”
Sun – guardian spirit
“Re”
Pharaoh – god in
human form
Regeneration –
“rebirth”
Mummification
Building a Pyramid
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ptians/launch_gms_pyramid_builder.shtml
Late Kingdom
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Hyksos – invades northern Egypt with superior
tech.
Adopted Egyptian styles of civilization
Theban prince – ruled middle portion
Ahmose – 1570 BCE drove Hyksos out of Egypt
New Kingdom
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Ahmose – 1500s BCE
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Standing Army
Empire expanded brought in new cultures
Hatshepsut – ruled for twenty years
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Rebuilt temples
Sent commercial expeditions down the Red
Sea
Akhenaton
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Defied priests of Amom-Re
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Removed the name of Amon-Re from all
public inscriptions
Said he was the only god
Conflict over religion became struggle for
power
Priest of Amon-Re won the power struggle
Contributed to the decline of Egyptian power
Invaders
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HittitesStart to attack over the next
century
Ramses II – 1288 BCE, Battle of Kush
“Sea People” push Egyptians back to the
Nile Delta and Valley
Next two C. turned back into a Kingdom
Libyans Dynasty – mid 900s BCE
Nubian Dynasty
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1800 BCE – entered the scene
Influenced heavily by Egyptian culture
730 BCE – War party north conquer the
kingdom of Thebes, Reunited country
since the fall of the New Kingdom
671 BCE – Kushites abandon Egypt
The End: for now