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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt. Millie Cheng. Agriculture supported life 6000 BCE traces of cultivation of cereals and domestication of animals People of Sahara moved down to Nile Valley and brought new farming skills. Predynastic Period . 3100-2686 BCE Agriculture supported life

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Ancient Egypt

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  1. Ancient Egypt Millie Cheng

  2. Agriculture supported life • 6000 BCE traces of cultivation of cereals and domestication of animals • People of Sahara moved down to Nile Valley and brought new farming skills Predynastic Period

  3. 3100-2686 BCE • Agriculture supported life • People of the Sahara moved down to the valley and brought new farming skills • 3100 BCE Menes or Narmer united Egypt • Artistic style was more organized Early Dynastic Period

  4. 3500 BCE • Little social stratification • Village economy was cereal agriculture • Traded with neighboring villages but trade was not center of economy Nagada 1

  5. 3300 BCE • Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt) • Wasn’t in a city form but acted like a city • Population grew from a few hundred to thousands within 500 years • Hiera was the city Menes unified Egypt Nagada 2

  6. 3100-2686 BCE • Irrigation systems improved • Step pyramids were made • Peak: trading, raiding and mining inclined • Extended to Nubia • Buhen fortress decined at 2400 BCE Old Kingdom Egypt

  7. Central authority weakened • Nomarchs gained power had private armies and controlled locally • 2181 BCE Kingdom fell • Split into two regions: Herakleopolis in North, Thebes in South Decline of Old Kingdom

  8. 2050-1750 BCE • 2050 BCE King Mentuhotpe (of Thebes) reunited kingdom • Trade grew in two patterns- • Local caravan trade in spices, resin, and minerals with Nile Delta and Palestine (Northern Sinai and Persia) • Long distance trade by ship through Mediterranean • State gained more organization and power • Egypt administraters effectively spread power into Nubia and Middle East Middle Kingdom

  9. Nubia drove out Egypt conqurers • Invasions of the Hyksos Decline of Middle Kingdom

  10. Reclaimed power over Nubia and extended empire to Palestine and Syria • 2000-1630 Egypt conquers Nubia • Thutmosis 1 extended empire • 1200 BCE Egypt controls trade New Kingdom

  11. http://archaeology.about.com/od/predynasticearlyperiods/qt/predynastic_egy.htmhttp://archaeology.about.com/od/predynasticearlyperiods/qt/predynastic_egy.htm • http://www.ancient-egypt.org/index.html Works Cited

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