Egypt

• In Egypt is known officially as the Arabic Republic of Egypt
• The Pharaoh was in charging in flooding the Nile river so that it could fertilize the crops
• Pyramids
• pyramid of Djoser -Mastaba- a stepped pyramid, it has layers and each layer looks like a step. earliest pyramids are mastabas
• Dynastic
• middle period/intermediate period- 2150-2030 b.c. a political upheaval was occurring and the structure of older Egypt was changed.
• Middle Kingdom- 2030- 1640 b.c. After the upheaval Egypt went back to the way it was before, the only difference is they did not build monuments like the mortuary city of Giza
• second intermediate/ New kingdom- Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. Akhenaten introduced monotheism. He introduced one god called Aten a sun god.
• his son Tutankhamun died as a boy and when he died so did the new kingdom, and the influence of the Greek and Roman world changed Egypt
• Persian Invasion- the Persians invaded Egypt and conquered the dynasties. After Egypt kicked them out the Greeks came in. Alexander, who was Greek and hated Persians, came to Egypt and the Egyptians loved him there.