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Period: 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE
the old kingdom
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2500 BCE
old kingdom
Khufu is the most famous pharaoh of the old kingdom pharaoh were considered to be gods and ruler of all the land -
2500 BCE
old kingdom
nobles (most nobles persist) are from rich and powerful families. also, they are right below the pharaoh in society. farmers slaves and servants made up of 80% of the society. traders would aqiure gold ,copper, ivory and stone for pyramids. -
2400 BCE
old kingdom
the After life is life after death and was thought to be a happy place. they leave heart in body for afterlife . the ka is the life force left their body and became their souls. method of mummification restores the body. only elite and wealthy got mummified poor were put in shallow graves. -
Period: 2050 BCE to 1750 BCE
the middle kingdom
in those 160 years their was no pharaoh so the nobles take over -
1750 BCE
middle kingdom
hyksos used horses , chariots and advance weapon to conquer lower Egypt. they conquered as pharaohs for 200 years -
Period: 1550 BCE to 1050 BCE
the New kingdom
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1500 BCE
middle kingdom
the egyptians eventually fought back in the mid 1500. Ahmose of the thebes declared himself king and drove out the hyksos -
1500 BCE
middle kingdom
Ahmose rise to power marked the start of Egypt eighteenth dynasty -
1200 BCE
new kingdom
In 1200 bc the pharaoh Rames 11 or Rames the great, fought the Hittites . -
1100 BCE
new kingdom
tehenu invaded a century later in Egypt strengthen their defenses -
1050 BCE
new kingdom
only 50 years of fighting the Egyptians able to turn back. Egypt survived, but it empire in Asia was gone -
1550
new kingdom
they took control of all possible invasion routes -
1550
new kingdom
they took over the entire eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the kingdom of kush . -
middle kingdom
toward the end of the middle kingdom however Egypt began to fall -
old kingdom
pyramid size and shape were symbolic to the pharaoh and his rule, they were symbolic to the journey to the afterlife even after the death people tried to make the pharaoh happy -
old kingdom
Pyramid were to bury and show significance of ruler, the bigger the better , four triangle shaped side with a point on top , the great pyramid of Khufu , the largest Egyptian use engineering to build pyramid with scientific knowledge and for practical purpose .