Egypt

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Egypt
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Old Kingdom

• Menes Dynasty 3200 BCE
• Pharoh Royal family Priest Gov. Peasants
• Pharaohs grow weaker at the end of the Old
  Kingdom
• Considered by some as the most creative period

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Pyramids 4,500 years old
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Middle Kingdom

• 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

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Farming and Trade

• Peasants did the farming
• Wheat and Barley
• Sea going ships Mediterrean, Red and Aegean
  Seas
• West Asia and south into Africa

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Education

• Bureaucracy complex gov. civil servants carry
  specialized task
• Fathers teaching son how to read and write
• Middle Kingdom actual schools appear

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Religion

• Nile primary god Osiris
• Sun guardian spirit Re
• Pharaoh god in human form
• Regeneration rebirth
• Mummification

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Building a Pyramid

• http//www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/lau
  nch_gms_pyramid_builder.shtml

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Late Kingdom

• 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

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New Kingdom

• Ahmose 1500s BCE
• Standing Army
• Empire expanded brought in new cultures
• Hatshepsut ruled for twenty years
• Rebuilt temples
• Sent commercial expeditions down the Red Sea

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Akhenaton

• Defied priests of Amom-Re
• 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

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Invaders

• 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

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Nubian Dynasty

• 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

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The End for now