A Short History of Egypt – to about 1970

A Short History of Egypt – to about 1970 Foreword ................................................................................................... 2 Chapter 1. Pre-Dynastic Times : Upper and Lower Egypt: The Unification. .. 3 Chapter 2. Chronology of the First Twelve Dynasties. ............................... 5 Chapter 3. The First and Second Dynasties (Archaic Egypt) ....................... 6 Chapter 4. The Third to the Sixth Dynasties (The Old Kingdom): The "Pyramid Age". .................................................................... 8 Chapter 5. The First Intermediate Period (Seventh to Tenth Dynasties)......10 Chapter 6. The Eleventh and Twelfth Dynasties (The Middle Kingdom) .......11 Chapter 7. The Second Intermediate Period (about I780-1561 B.C.): The Hyksos. .............................................................................12 Chapter 8. The "New Kingdom" or "Empire" : Eighteenth to Twentieth Dynasties (c.1567-1085 B.C.)...............................................13 Chapter 9. The Decline of the Empire. ...................................................15 Chapter 10. Persian Rule (525-332 B.C.): Conquest by Alexander the Great. 17 Chapter 11. The Early Ptolemies: Alexandria. ...........................................18 Chapter 12. The Later Ptolemies: The Advent of Rome. .............................20 Chapter 13. Cleopatra...........................................................................21 Chapter 14. Egypt under the Roman, and then Byzantine, Empire: Christianity: The Coptic Church.............................................23 Chapter 15. The Arab Conquest..............................................................26 Chapter 16. Early Islam. .......................................................................28 Chapter 17. The Fatimids. .....................................................................30 Chapter 18. Saladin: The Crusades.........................................................32 Chapter 19. The Bahri (Turkish) Mameluks (1250-1382)............................34 Chapter 20. The Burji (Circassian) Mameluks (1382-1517).........................36 Chapter 21. Egypt under the Ottoman Turks. ...........................................38 Chapter 22. The Beginning of European Intervention in Egypt : Napoleon. ...40 Chapter 23. Mohammed Ali. ..................................................................42 Chapter 24. The Khedive Ismail (1863-1879): Financial Collapse: Anglo- French Control,...................................................................44 Chapter 25. The Sudan : General Gordon. ...............................................46 Chapter 26. British Control of Egypt........................................................47 Chapter 27. Negotiations for Egyptian Independence: The Second World War. ........................................................................................50 Chapter 28. Egypt Becomes an Independent Republic. ..............................52 Chapter 29. Foreign Affairs under Nasser's Rule. ......................................53 Chapter 30. Modem Egypt under Nasser..................................................55 Appendix. Population and Chief Towns..................................................56 CHRONOLOGY. ..........................................................................................57 Maps: Egypt – Ancient and Medieval ...............................................66

A Short History of Egypt – to about 1970

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