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Egypt

Egypt. Importance of the Nile. Irrigation Navigation Flooding provided rich, fertile mud Nilometer. Law No written code Oral tradition Whatever the pharaoh said. Social Order Class system Upper class stability Lower class could move up via education. Law and Social Order. Timeline.

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Egypt

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  1. Egypt

  2. Importance of the Nile • Irrigation • Navigation • Flooding provided rich, fertile mud • Nilometer

  3. Law No written code Oral tradition Whatever the pharaoh said. Social Order Class system Upper class stability Lower class could move up via education Law and Social Order

  4. Timeline • First & Second Dynasties (3100 – 2686 BCE) • Old Kingdom (2686 – 2180 BCE) • Middle Kingdom (2140 – 1786 BCE) • New Kingdom (1570 – 1085 BCE) • Third Intermediate Period (1085 – 332 BCE) • Ptolemaic Period (332 – 30 BCE)

  5. Palette of Narmer (Menes) 3100 BCE

  6. Old Kingdom • Central state ruled by pharaoh • Pyramids • Theocracy

  7. The Good Large drainage project Contact with Crete and Middle East Egypt took Hyksos tech and used it to drive Hyksos out. The Bad Corruption and rebellions Invaded and occupied by Hyksos. Bronze weapons Chariots Compound bows Literature turned pessimistic Middle Kingdom

  8. New Kingdom • Conquests • Culture • Queen Hatshepsut • Akhenaton • Tutankhamen • Ramses II

  9. Third Intermediate Period • Expansion weakens control of pharoah. • Egypt splits in two. • The Kush in Nubia rebel and seize Egypt. • Ashurbanipal of Assyria conquers Egypt. • Egypt left in turmoil and ripe for…

  10. Ptolemaic Period • Alexander the Great conquers Egypt • He’s viewed as a savior. • One of his generals, Ptolemy I, is given Egypt after Alexander’s death. • We’ll pick up this story later.

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