26 Nov 33 Jahr v. Chr. - Egyptian period

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Egyptian civilization developed over 3000 years. It began with the unification of several cities of the valley of the Nile, 1 around 3150 a. C., 2 and is conventionally terminated in 31 a. C., when the Roman Empire conquered and absorbed Ptolemaic Egypt, that disappears like State.

Life was organized around the development of an independent writing system and literature, as well as a careful state control over natural and human resources, mainly characterized by the irrigation of the fertile Nile basin and the mining of the valley and the surrounding desert regions, the organization of collective projects such as large public works, trade with neighboring regions of East and Central Africa and those of the eastern Mediterranean and, finally, military power capable of defeating any enemy, and who maintained an imperial hegemony and the territorial domination of neighboring civilizations in diverse periods. The motivation and organization of these activities was entrusted to a bureaucracy of socio-political and economic elite, the scribes, under the control of Pharaoh, a semi-divine personage, belonging to a succession of dynasties, which guaranteed the cooperation and unity of the Egyptian people in the context of an elaborate system of religious beliefs

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