Herodotus “The Gift of the Nile”

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KMT Black Land

DSRT Red Land (Desert)

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Hieratic Script

Sirius Nomes Upper Egypt (22 Nomes) Lower Egypt (20 Nomes)

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Aha Narmer Menes Dynasties (31)

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Palette of Narmer

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Palette of Narmer

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Early Dynastic Period 3100 – 2700 BC Dynasties 1 – 2

Old Kingdom 2700 – 2200 BC Dynasties 3 – 6

1st Intermediate Period 2200 – 2025 BC Dynasties 7 – 10

Middle Kingdom 2025 – 1630 BC Dynasties 11 – 12

2nd Intermediate Period 1630 – 1550 BC Dynasties 13 – 17

New Kingdom 1550 – 1075 BC Dynasties 18 – 20

Post Empire 1075 – 31/30 BC Dynasties 21 - 31 12

Macedonians 332 BC Ptolemy Cleopatra d. 31/30 BC

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Pharaoh Matrilineal

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King Royal Family Court (Officials, Scribes ) Farmers/Craftspeople Servants

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Theocracy King Vizier Nomarchs Imaku – “fed from the hand”

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Polytheistic Anthropomorphic Zoomorphic Composite Naturalistic Animistic Pantheistic

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THE SON OF THE SUN

Re (Ra) Osirus King Zoser (Djoser) Imhotep

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Stepped Pyramid of Djoser

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Giza Khufu (Cheops) Khafre (Chephren) Menkaure (Mycrinus) Sphinx

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Model of Giza Complex

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Pyramids of Giza

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The Great Sphinx

Corvee Amenemhet Hyksos

Wheel Horse Chariot

Ahmose

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Expansion Trade Professional Army

Syria, Palestine, Nubia, Sudan Syria, Palestine, Aegean, Crete

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Damnatio Memoriae Punt Thutmose II Thutmose III

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Obelisk of Hatshepsut

Amonhotep IV Amonhotep III Tiy Amon Aton Akhenaton Hydrocephaly

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Tel el Amarna Akhetaton Henotheism

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Ankhesesnomen Hittite Ramesids Ramses the Great

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Syrian Nubian Lybian Egyptian

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Libyan Nubian Syrian Bedouin Hittite

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