ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORY
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Egypt - Spanning from 3300 BC to 30 BC
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In the valley and delta of the river Nile.
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Pyramids at Giza and lighthouse at Alexandria.
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On the west bank of the river Nile between Luxor and Aswan.
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The culture that existed before the time of the first Egyptian Dynasties or families of rulers.
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Menes. He reigned around 3100 BC. [ Some documents refer to other unnamed rulers ]. The excavations show names of Aha or Narmer as earliest kings. Probably Menes can be identified with Narmer.
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Narmer. [An image of Narmer appears on an excavated Palette, dated around 3100 BC, wearing two crowns: white for the Upper Egypt and Red for the Lower Egypt].
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Abydos, a site of the Upper Egypt.
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30
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3100 to 2920 BC [ lasting for about 150 years ].
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Dynasty O.
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2920 to 2650 BC [ for about 300 years ].
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Memphis [ Located just below the southern tip of delta].
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2134 BC.
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First Intermediate Period
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Djoser. The tomb is known as Step Pyramid and is at Saqqarah.
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The Great Pyramid. Built for King Khufu, the second king of the 4th dynasty.
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The Collection of Hymns, spells, rituals and instructions on how to act in front of gods carved in the interiors of the Pyramids. Pyramids Texts is the oldest religious literature so far discovered.
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From 2134 to 2040 BC
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Around 2040 BC the ruler of Thebes, Nebhepetre-Mentuhotep, defeated the ruler of Herakleopolis and againt reunited Egypt.
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Around 2040 BC [ with reunification of Egypt under Nebhepetre-Mentuhotep ]
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11th Dynasty.
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Thebes.
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Amenemhet I in 1991 BC
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Itjtawy ( The Seizer of the Two Lands"). A site near Memphis.
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Amon or Amun
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Written during the Middle Kingdom, its the story of the travels of an Egyptian nobleman who had to flee the country.
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A region occupying both sides of the Nile river valley between Aswan and Khartoum. Amenemhet I extended his control to this region.
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Amenemhet I. He made his son Senwosret I coregent in 1971 BC.
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1962 BC.
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Soberkneferu
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Around 1783 BC
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150 years
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About 70
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Middle East
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In the Western Nile delta.
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Around 1640 BC, with the establishment of 15th dynasty. This dynasty was not of Egyptian origin.
- Hyksos (Egyptian, “foreign rulers”), Semitic invaders who conquered Egypt in the 17th century bc and founded the 15th Dynasty while at the same time other dynasties, 13th and 14th, were ruling also ruling different parts of Egypt.
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