Stonehenge: In England… features in Arthutian legend and in other novels… built during the Neolithic‚ meaning new stone 2950-1600 BCE Middle Eastern Art BCE Dates: Sumerian/Mesopotamian/Old Babylonian – present day Iraq 4‚000 – 1‚925 BC Hittite – from Turkey 1‚500 – 700 BC control overlaps with Assyrian Assyrian – drive out Hittites 1‚000 – 612 BC Neo-Babylonian/Chaldean – 605 – 562 BC Persian – (present day Iran) 538 – 330 BC Innovations of the culture: Plough‚ cuneiform‚ developed tax
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Key Terms and Important People Coptic: Ancient Egyptian language‚ spread to the lower Nile river valley Cataracts: churning rapids‚ it was impossible to travel all the way upstream because of the cataracts Delta: formed in Lower Egypt‚ it is where the Nile River spreads and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. Upper Egypt: the strip of land that extends between Nubia and towards Lower Egypt Lower Egypt: North most region of Egypt‚ between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. Nubia: region along
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SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT KING TUTANKHAMEN DID NOT DIE OF NATURAL CAUSES - HE WAS MURDERED. ~KING TUT~ Tutankhamen‚ king of Ancient Egypt (often referred to as King Tut)‚ died at the early age of around eighteen. To this day‚ his death remains a mystery that has brought many historians‚ Egyptologist and scientist too many theories as to how King Tut died. Two (2) theories in particular are the theory that he succumbed to a broken leg that became infected‚ and the theory that he was murdered
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some of the strongest men can’t handle. My name is Tony and this is my story. It all started back on May 14th‚ 1432 BC‚ Alexander‚ my brother‚ and I was walking to the city of Akhenaten. Alexander and I were both doctors. The pharaoh’s wife was sick and required immediate medical attention. Once we arrived to Akhenaten‚ we were rushed to the wife. She had been bitten by a very deadly scorpion. We tried everything we could‚ but it was too late. The pharaoh was not pleased and he struck at Alexander
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time‚ since Lower Egypt was frail the Hyksos took control of the area. In 1552‚ Ahmose I‚ a Theban King‚ took over Hyksos’s area‚ and began the New Kingdom. In 1369‚ during the New Kingdom‚ Akhenaten changed the heirarchy of their gods by placing Aten (god of the sun’s disk) above all of the other deities. Akhenaten wanted to change Egypt’s heretical view from polytheism to henotheism‚ but he ended up failing and much of his name was erased from history. In 1274‚ The Egyptians and Hittites made a treaty
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Periods[edit] Predynastic (4210 BC–2680 BC) Old Kingdom (2680 BC–2258 BC) Middle Kingdom (2258 BC–1786 BC) New Kingdom (1786 BC–1069 BC)‚ including the Amarna Period (1085 BC–1055 BC) Third Intermediate Period (1069 BC–664 BC) First Persian Period‚ Late Period and Second Persian Period (664 BC–332 BC) Ptolemaic Kingdom (332- 30 BC) Roman Egypt (30 BC to Christianizatian in the 4th century AD) Sunk relief of the crocodile godSobek Symbolism[edit] Symbolism also played an important role in establishing
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Origins of Egyptian Hieroglyphs The ancient Egyptians believed that writing was invented by the god Thoth and called their hieroglyphic script "mdwt ntr" (god’s words). The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek hieros (sacred) plus glypho (inscriptions) and was first used by Clement of Alexandria. The earliest known examples of writing in Egypt have been dated to 3‚400 BC. The latest dated inscription in hieroglyphs was made on the gate post of a temple at Philae in 396 AD. The hieroglyphic
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The Bronze Age → Dark Ages Greece Mesopotamia - Tigris and Euphrates Egypt - Nile : flooding every year which makes the soil fertile In the 4th millenium‚ settled clusters of people 1. Predynastic 2. Old kingdom - known for grandiose architecture (pyramids) 3. First intermediate 4. Middle kingdom - brief‚ unspectacular 5. Second intermediate period - started around 1800 B.C.‚ Egypt is experiencing a decline‚ irregular floods‚ people losing trust in the government. Hyksos
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EGYPT’S STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES Strengths: 1- the Nile river and its fertile banks 2- isolated country difficult to invade 3- papyrus growing on the banks so possibility to write. And they do write and record everything. Writers are then called Scribes. 4- On the Mediterranean Sea‚ but also south in Africa: contact with two worlds so to speak. And also‚ an opening on the red sea called Erythrean Sea‚ so also commerce with Persia and India. 5- A happy people‚ full of optimism‚ meditating
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gods. "One pharaoh‚ a female nonetheless‚ even went so far as to concoct a wild story to insure her subjects saw her as divinely appointed by Hatshepsut." (The World of the Ancient Egyptian Gods‚ 2008) Apart from a short period of time when pharaoh Akhenaten tried to establish a monotheistic devotion to one god but the nation was ruled by numerous different Egyptian gods and goddess. Egyptian religion was so interconnected
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