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2700 BCE
Old Kingdom
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Period: 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE
Old Kingdom
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Period: 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE
Old Kingdom
Pharaoh's were gods the Egyptians believed. -
2600 BCE
Old Kingdom
Nobles are below P in society. Nobles are rich powerful families. Farmers, presents, and slaves made up 80% of population. Government would pay slaves with grain. -
2500 BCE
Old Kingdom
Much of the Egyptian's religions mainly focused on the afterlife or life after death. Also, the ka leaves the body after death and becomes a spirit. -
2400 BCE
Old Kingdom
The Egyptians developed a method called embalming to preserve bodies and to keep them from decaying to help the ka. Only elite people were mummified or people of wealth and power. Mummies are specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth. -
2300 BCE
Old Kingdom
Pyramids are huge, stone tombs with four triangular shaped sides that met in a point at the top. Engineering is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. Burial in a pyramid showed a Pharaohs importance. The pyramid was symbolic it pointing to the sky and the journey to the afterlife. Also, they have pyramid texts that had curses they did that because they cared about the Pharaoh after death. -
2200 BCE
Middle Kingdom
Nobles gained power to challenge Egyptians Pharaoh and the old kingdom fell at 2200 BC. -
2050 BCE
Middle Kingdom
A powerful Pharaoh defeated his rivals. -
Period: 2050 BCE to 1750 BCE
Middle Kingdom
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1750 BCE
Middle Kingdom
After the Pharaoh took back over and Egypt was united his rule began the Middle Kingdom a period of order and stability that lasted to about 1750 BC -
1750 BCE
Middle Kingdom
Around 1750 BC a group from south west Asia called Hyksos invaded. They used horses, chariots, and weapons and took over Lower Egypt and ruler for the next 200 years. -
Period: 1550 BCE to 1050 BCE
New Kingdom
Period of power and glory. After, Ahmose of Thebes drove out Hyksos and ruled all of Egypt. -
1500 BCE
Middle Kingdom
Mid-1500 BC Egyptians fought back. Ahmose of Thebes declared himself king and drove the Hykos away and Ahmose ruled all pf Egypt. -
1500 BCE
New Kingdom
Well building an empire they took over Kysos, Syria, and Kush (south of Egypt). Empire from Euphrates River to Kush. -
1400 BCE
New Kingdom
Queen Hatshe sent trades North and South to trade. Also, to get turquoise and copper from the Sinai Peninsula and used that stuff to make a magnificent monument. -
1200 BCE
New Kingdom
Ramses and Hittites have a war of attrition. -
1000 BCE
New Kingdom
Egypt falls into a period of violence and never returns.