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3100 BCE
Menes Unites Egypt
There was a pharaoh of the early dynastic period of Egypt. This pharoahs name was Menes. Menes was the creator of a tradition were he units upper and lower Egypt and as the founder of the first dynasty. -
Period: 2575 BCE to 2130 BCE
The Old Kingdom
The old kingdom is regarded as the third dynasty all the way to the sixth dynasty. The old kingdom was in the period of security and prosperity but it was also in a period of divinity and cultural decline which is referred as the first intermediate period. -
Period: 2055 BCE to 1650 BCE
The Middle Kingdom
the middle kingdom stretched from the reunification of Egypt of the eleventh dynasty to the twelfth dynasty. Some scholars included the thirteenth dynasty of Egypt in which this period would be the one where the middle kingdom ended. -
1550 BCE
Hyksos conquer Egypt
Hyksos, dynasty of Palestinian origin that rolled northern Egypt as the 15th dynasty. -
Period: 1550 BCE to 1077 BCE
The New Kingdom
The new kingdom of Egypt was in three dynasties, the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth. The new kingdom was in two intermediate periods, the second one and the third one. At this period Egypt was at its prosperous time and was at the highest in power. -
Period: 1479 BCE to 1425 BCE
Thutmose III Reign
Thutmose III was the sixth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty. He served as the head of his armies. Thutmose III ruled Egypt for almost fifty-four years, this includes the twenty- two years he was co-regrant to Hatshepsut. During the final two years of his reign, he appointed his son Amenhotep II, as his junior co-regrant. When Thutmose II died, he was buried in the valley of the kings so were the rest of the kings from his period in Egypt. -
Period: 1478 BCE to 1458 BCE
Hatshepsut I Reign
Hatshepsut had many achievements, but the greatest of theme all was being the first female pharaoh of Egypt to have full powers during the 18th dynasty when there was great opposition against women leadership. -
Period: 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE
Ramesses II Reign
Ramesses II referred to as Ramesses the great was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. Ramesses II led several military expeditions into the levant, re-asserting Egyptian control over Canaan. At age fourteen, Ramesses was appointed prince Regent by his father Seyi I. The early cities, temples and monuments. He established the city of Pi-Ramesses in the Nile Delta as his new capital and main base for his campaigns in Syria. -
525 BCE
Persians Conquer Egypt
In trying to Conquest Egypt there was a battle fought near a city called Pelusium. This was the first major battle between the Achaemenid empire and ancient Egypt. This battled transferred the throne to Cambyses the II who was the king of Persia. The battle was fallowed by sieges of Gaza and Memphis. -
332 BCE
Greeks conquer Egypt
Greeks ave been present in Egypt since at least the 7th century BC and claimed that the Greeks were one of the first groups of foreigners that ever lived in Egypt. Alexander the Great conquered Egypt at an early stage of his conquest. He respected the pharanoic religions and customs and he was proclaimed pharaoh of Egypt.
