Ancient Egypt

By AndyCumming
  • 3100 BCE

    hieroglyphic writing in Egypt

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 2950 BCE

    Predynastic

  • 3000 BCE

    Egyptians worship the sun

  • Period: 2950 BCE to 2575 BCE

    Early Dynastic

  • 2920 BCE

    Menes/Aha unites Egypt

  • 2700 BCE

    Egyptians write on papyrus

  • Period: 2575 BCE to 2130 BCE

    Old Kingdom

  • 2550 BCE

    Great Pyramid of Giza (146m tall) built

  • 2515 BCE

    Sphinx is built for pharaoh Khephren

  • 2130 BCE

    Egypt splits into two smaller states (Memphis in the north and Thebes in the south)

  • Period: 2130 BCE to 2030 BCE

    First Intermediate Period

  • 2040 BCE

    Nebhetepre Mentuhotep II reunites Egypt, makes Thebes the capital of all Egypt

  • Period: 2030 BCE to 1630 BCE

    Middle Kingdom

  • 1640 BCE

    The Hyksos seize power in northern Egypt and introduce the horse-driven chariot

  • Period: 1630 BCE to 1539 BCE

    Second Intermediate Period

  • 1539 BCE

    Ahmose I of Thebes defeats the Hyksos and expels them from Egypt

  • Period: 1539 BCE to 1075 BCE

    New Kingdom

  • 1504 BCE

    Tuthmosis I campaigns to Mesopotamia. Thebes becomes most important city

  • 1480 BCE

    Queen Hatshepsut ascends to throne

  • 1458 BCE

    1479 BC: Tuthmosis III becomes pharaoh. Reorganises empire into a military bureaucracy-defeats the Mitannis and conquers Syria.

  • 1450 BCE

    Egyptians use the sundial

  • 1353 BCE

    Akhenaten becomes pharaoh, banishes all gods other than Atum

  • 1275 BCE

    the Egyptian king Rameses II fights against the Hittites at Kadesh in Syria

  • Period: 1075 BCE to 715 BCE

    Third Intermediate Period

  • Period: 715 BCE to 332 BCE

    Late Period

  • 332 BCE

    Alexander the Great conquers Egypt