Egypt2200

Egypt

Jocelyn Kerekes

7000 B.C.-5000 B.C.

• Settlement on Nile Valley begins

• Egyptian peoples lived in small farming

villages

• No main government or arrangement

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4500 B.C.

• Sails used on Egyptian ships

• Boats were a main form of transport

• Made trading easier

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ss/egypt/timeline_egypt.htm

3200 B.C

• Villages in Egypt are ruled by either upper

or Lower Egypt

• Government is separated by either Upper

or Lower.

• Upper and Lower Egypt aren’t allies

• Textbook

3100 B.C. – 3000 B.C.

• Hieroglyphic writing developed

• Upper and Lower Egypt united

• Trade, cultural traditions and writing

flourished

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15719

2700 B.C.

• Engineering achievement for Egyptians

• 2500 B.C. – Great Spinx built

• 2700 B.C.- First Stone Pyramid built

• 2600 B.C.-Pyramids of Giza built

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2650 B.C.

• First Pyramid built

• The Step Pyramid in Saqqara

• Built for Pharaoh Djoser

• Made of Sandstone and limestone and

stands 70 meters tall

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ac.uk/interactives/history/egypt/egyptianti

meline/

2200 B.C.-2180 B.C.

• Various Kings ruled Egypt

• 2055 B.C.- Mentuhoep II gained control

• Power of Pharaohs declined

• End of Old Kingdom

• Textbook

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2040 B.C.-1640 B.C.

• Strong Pharaohs regained control

• Restored law & order

• Created new acres of farmland by draining

swamps

• Hyksos- “rulers of foreign lands” move into

Egypt

• Textbook

2000 B.C.

• Agricultural development of the Faium

• Earliest parts of Temple of Karnak built

• Egyptians controlled Nubia

1630 B.C.-1523 B.C.

• Hykosos ruled much of Egypt

• Textbook

1570 B.C.

• Egypt’s New Kingdom is established

• Textbook

1325 B.C

• King Tutankumun was buried in Valley of

Kings.

• 1922- Grave discovered

• Grave had treasures and the mummy with

a gold mask

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ss/egypt/timeline_egypt.htm

1100 B.C.

• Upper and Lower Egypt Split

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e/main.html

728 B.C.

• Nubia conquors Egypt

• Under Nubian King Piy

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e/main.html

671 B.C.

• Assyrians attacked Egypt

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e/main.html

669 B.C.

• Assyrians

• Come from Mesopotamia

• Conquer and rule Egypt

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525 B.C.

• Persian Conquest

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332 B.C.

• Alexander the Great of ancient Macedonia

• Conquers Egypt- founds Alexandria

• Macedonian Dynasty- rules till 31 B.C.

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305 B.C.

• Ptolemy becomes Pharoh

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e/main.html

196 B.C.

• Rosetta Stone Carved

31 B.C.-30 B.C.

• Battle of Actium

• Cleopatra VII dies

642 A.D.

• Arab conquest of Egypt

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1517 A.D.

• Ottoman Turks rule Egypt

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