Timeline

Pre-dynastic Early Dynastic Period Old Kingdom First Intermediate Period Middle Kingdom 5000 – 3100 BCE 3100 – 2700 BCE 2700 – 2184 BCE 2184 – 2040 BCE 2040 – 1782 BCE People begin to The Pharaohs rule Northern / Lower Capital of in Memphis. They divide Egypt into two states. They reunite Egypt. There settle in the Egypt and Southern / Upper Egypt. They build the first pyramid. Memphis is the main city in the north is a growth across the valley. The people The earliest examples of hieroglyphic 2575-2150 BCE – The Great and Thebes the main city in the south. regions in the creation of farm and build writing. Pyramid is built at Giza. art and in the writing of houses along literature, mathematics and the Nile. medicine.

Late Period Third Intermediate Period New Kingdom Second Intermediate Period 664 – 332 BCE 1070 – 664 BCE 1570 – 1070 BCE 1782 – 1570 BCE 125 years of Assyrian and Persian Libyans and Nubians conquer 1539-1075 BCE They build They divide Egypt into two kingdoms rule. It is independent again Egypt and they divide the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. again and there are civil wars. 404 – 343 BCE. country again. One Pharaoh reunites Egypt. Period in which Tutankhamen lives and dies.

Greek (Ptolemaic) Period Roman Empire Byzantine Period Arab and Medieval Period 332 – 30 BCE 30 BCE – 395 CE 395 – 641 CE 642 – 1517 CE The Greek ruler Alexander the Great Cleopatra VII dies and Egypt Egypt is part of the eastern Christian Egypt is conquered by the Arabs in takes over Egypt and descendants of becomes a province of the Roman Empire known as the Byzantine 642 CE and is part of the Abbabid Empire. his general Ptolemy rule Egypt after Roman Empire. Empire. Fatimid (969-1171) and his death. Greek is the language of (1250-1517) periods see the creation of government. complex art and literature. becomes a great medieval city.

Modern Republic of Egypt Egyptian Kingdom (with British Ottoman Period 1953 – present. administration) 1914 – 1952 CE 1517 – 1914 CE Egypt becomes independent in 1953. An independent Egyptian Parliament Egypt is part of the is formed in 1922. in , with independent rulers after 1805 and British military rule after 1882.

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