Ancient Egypt - Valeria Perez and Laura -8A

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 3165 BCE

    Menes unites egypt

    Menes one of the first Egyptian kings, considered unifier of the country and first pharaoh of the first dynasty, with the unification of Egypt,also brought writing, art, agriculture and craft techniques,
  • Period: 2613 BCE to 2150 BCE

    Old kigdom

    This was the age that was called the Age of the Pyramid builders that includes the great 4th Dynasty when King Sneferu perfected the art of pyramid building and the pyramids of Giza were constructed under the kings Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure
  • Period: 2030 BCE to 1640 BCE

    Middle kingdom

    Began when Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II reunited Upper and Lower Egypt, setting the stage for a second great starting of Egyptian culture. At the end of Dynasty 11, the throne passed to a new family.
  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE

    New kigdom

    The New Kingdom (1570–1070 BC) followed the Second Intermediate Period and was succeeded by the Third Intermediate Period. It was Egypt’s most prosperous time and marked the zenith of its power.
  • Period: 1507 BCE to 1458 BCE

    Reing of Hatshepsut

    Women who reached the rank of Pharaoh. she did it against all the laws and customs of the Egyptian state, taking advantage of a series of dynastic circumstances
  • Period: 1479 BCE to 1493 BCE

    Thutmose II

    Had an extraordinary military capacity, which was the loyalty of the most powerful army in the Near East. At the command of these troops, Thutmose III forged an empire that ran from present-day Syria to the fourth cataract of the Nile with it, the dominions of Pharaonic Egypt reached the maximum extent of all their history. Their army fought up to seventeen times in Asian lands, Between the Sinai peninsula and the Euphrates River.
  • Period: 1292 BCE to 1186 BCE

    Ramses II

    He is also known also as Ozymandias and as Ramesses the Great. He was the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty who claimed to have won a decisive victory over the Hittites at The Battle of Kadesh
  • Period: 525 BCE to 530 BCE

    Persians conquer Egypt

    The Persians ruled Egypt from 525 BC, successfully fighting off the Libyans. After the Greek victory at Marathon in 490 BC, the Egyptians revolted (in 484 and again in 460 BC) with the help of the Athenians, but unsuccessfully
  • 332 BCE

    Greeks conquer Egypt

    Greeks conquer Egypt
    The road to the Greek conquest of Egypt had been preparing for many years. From the memorable march of Xenophon, which, in the midst of the unknown difficulties, brought ten thousand Greeks in Asia Minor, the Greek state man had suspected that the Greek soldier was capable of unsuspected possibilities.
  • hyrsa invade egypt

    hyrsa invade egypt
    Was a dynasty that governed northern Egypt. The name Hyksos was used by the Egyptian historian. The Hyksos were identified with the Hebrews of the Bible. Hicsos was, in fact, probably an Egyptian term for "rulers of foreign lands