Ancient Egypt
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Updated: 12 Jun 2018
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Created byJulia Miryam-Chavah Schenzinger
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c. 5,000 - c. 4,000 BCE: farming develops in the Nile Valley.c. 3,500 - c. 3,000 BCE: the Pre-dynastic period.c. 2,650 BCE: the beginnin of the Old Kingdom.c. 2575 - c. 2465 BCE: the Great Pyramids are built on the Giza Plateau.2074 BCE: the Middle Kingdom forms; Egypt is again unified and gains power.1759 BCE: fall of the Middle Kingdom; Northern Egypt is occupied by the Hykos.1539 BCE: Egypt is re-unified and the Hykos began to be expelled. Egypt begins to become a power of the Middle East.c. 1354 - c. 1328 BCE: the pharaoh Akhenaton has a brief rule and forces Egypt into a short monotheism of the god Aten.c. 1336 - c. 1327 BCE: the reign of Tutankhamun.1279-1213 BCE: the Reign of Ramses II; Egypt is at the climax of its power.c. 1150 BCE: the New Kingdom begins a steady decline of power.728 BCE: Egypt is attacked/overtaken by Nubian kings
656 - 639 BCE: Egypt is occupied by the Assyrians
525 BCE: Egypt is conquered by the Persians.332 BCE: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt.
305: His generals, Ptolemy, begins a Greek-speaking dynasty in Egypt.
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