Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt
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Egyptian Geography

• Nile
• Flows northward.
• Floods on July.
• Recedes in October.
• Egypt as the gift of the Nile.

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Political Development

• 5000 BCE Early Egyptians live in farming
  villages in Lower Egypt.
• 3100 BCE Menes unites all of Egypt.
• Establishes the capital of Memphis.
• 2660 BCE - 2180 BCE Old Kingdom begins.

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Political Development

• 2180 BCE End of Old Kingdom
• 2080 - 1640 BCE Middle Kingdom
• Pharaohs restore order.
• 1640 - 1570 BCE Egypt falls to the Hyksos.

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Political Development

• 1570-1090 BCE New Kingdom.
• Hatshepsut
• Amenhotep
• Tutankhamen
• Unprecedented wealth and power.

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Economic Development

• Old Kingdom
• Slavery and Plantations.
• Agriculture.
• Middle Kingdom
• Trade with other nations.
• Canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
• New Kingdom
• Expanded traded.
• Wealth

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Technology

• Writing
• Hieroglyphics
• Picture stands for an idea.
• Papyrus
• Reeds from the Nile.
• Numbers.
• Math.
• Columns.
• Calendar
• Medicine

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Cultural DevelopmentEgypt

• Religion
• Polytheistic.
• Pharaohs as gods.
• Pyramids.
• Social Pyramid
• Royal family -gt wealthy landowners, government
  officials, priests, and army commanders -gt
  merchants and artisans -gt laborers and farmers -gt
  slaves.

• Hieroglyphics
• Papyrus
• Numbers.
• Math.
• Columns.
• Calendar
• Medicine
• Pyramids