ancient egypt project

  • 100

    cleopatra vii died

    cleopatra vii died
    100 B.C. This was important because she was the first girl to be pharaoh. This was also important because she was a pharaoh. This was important to us because if we didn't know she had died then we wouldn't know she existed.
  • 196

    Rosetta stone was carved

    Rosetta stone was carved
    196 B.C.This was carved with the aggreement between a group of preists and ancient egyptians.This was written in three different types of scripts. One of Nepoleon's soldiers was diging and dug up the Rosetta Srone up and it took 20 years to crack the code of all the words.
  • 300

    last of hieroglyphics writing

    last of hieroglyphics writing
    300 A.D. This was during the roman period.. Their was no more of this writing because people had already cracked the code to reading it, Heiroglyphics were pictures to explain what they were talking about.
  • 400

    Alexander the great conquered Egypt

    Alexander the great conquered Egypt
    400 B.C. Alexander the great came from Macedonia He was important because no one had conqured egypt in a long time since they were very powerful. He is important to us because without him we wouldn't know he conqured egypt.
  • Jan 1, 600

    persian conqured egypt

    persian conqured egypt
    600 B.C. The persians came from the near east. Cyprusus son helped conqure egypt. That is important to us because if we didn't know about this then we wouldn't kbow what it led to.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    upper and lower egypt split

    upper and lower egypt split
    1000 B.C. This was in the 21st dynasty.Egypt actually never split it combined.When they split the upper and lower egypt they made it to were they can all get to the nile river. That is important to us because now we know that they all had access to the nile river.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Hatshepsut became pharaoh

    Hatshepsut became pharaoh
    1500 B.C. Hatshepsut was pharaoh from 1473 B.C. to 1458 B.C. Hatshepsut was important because she was the first female pharaoh. If we didn't know about Harshepsut and her most important advisor was senenmut.
  • Mentuhotep 11 gained control of the entire country

    Mentuhotep 11 gained control of the entire country
    2100 B.C. This was during the 11 th dynasty and he rained for 51 years. Mentuhotep was the first ruler of the middle kingdom. He is important to us because without out knowing that he was the ruler we wouldn't know who ruled in the 11th dynasty.
  • The pyramids of Giza were built

    The pyramids of Giza were built
    2600 B.C. The pyramids of Giza were important to the Egyptians because the Pharaoh and their Queens needed tombs. These pyramids are important to us because this lets us know more about the Egyptians. This was during the 4th dynasty.This was mainly built for the Pharaoh Kufu. This pyramid is approximatley 147 meters high and its weight is about 6,500,000 tonnes.
  • the first stone myramid was built

    the first stone myramid was built
    2700 B.C. The first stone pyramid was impotant to the egyptians because they needed their pharaoh to be protected. The first stone pyramid is important to us today because without it we wouldn'y know how to read their writting system because of the writting on the walls. This was during the 3rd dynasty. The first stone pyramid was made by building several steps of stone on top of each other.