In 332 BC, Alexander the Great of Greece conquered Egypt and set up his own ruling family called the Ptolemaic Dynasty. The first to conquer Egypt was the Assyrian Empire, followed a hundred or so years later by the Persian Empire.
It was conquered by a number of other civilizations. The Ancient Egyptian Empire began to weaken in about 700 BC. As a result, archeologists have a lot of well preserved artifacts and tombs to examine in order to find out how the ancient Egyptians lived. They believed that they needed treasure to be buried with them to help them in the afterlife. The pharaohs of Egypt were often buried in giant pyramids or in secret tombs. Only scribes could read and write and they were considered powerful people. Writing was also important in keeping the government running. The government and religion were tied together as the leader of the government, the Pharaoh, was also leader of the religion. The times between the Kingdoms are called intermediate periods.Īncient Egypt was rich in culture including government, religion, arts, and writing. It was during these times that ancient Egypt was at its strongest. Historians usually group the history of ancient Egypt into three major kingdoms called the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom. Great floods would come each year and would provide fertile soil for growing food. The Nile provided food, soil, water, and transportation for the Egyptians. Great Egyptian cities grew up along the Nile as the Egyptian people became experts in irrigation and were able to use the water from the Nile to grow rich and profitable crops. The Nile was the source of much of ancient Egypt's wealth. The civilization of ancient Egypt was located along the Nile River in northeast Africa.
It lasted for over 3000 years from 3150 BC to 30 BC. Urn:oclc:869990127 Republisher_date 20121010141653 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120823125006 Scanner Egypt was one of the greatest and most powerful civilizations in the history of the world. Urn:lcp:ancientegyptnatu00geor:epub:e80b12df-b5ba-43b1-b1f8-70463fb994af Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ancientegyptnatu00geor Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t05x3m88p Isbn 0783547633ĩ780783547633 Lccn 95013350 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:35:46 Boxid IA159702 Boxid_2 CH111801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Alexandria, Va.
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