Name Date Core # Egypt’s Three Kingdoms

Directions: Create a list of four characteristics and draw three illustrations with captions for each of the three Kingdoms.

What is a Kingdom: King Tut’s Mask from the New Kingdom

The Old Kingdom The Middle Kingdom The New Kingdom 1. 1. 1.

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The Old Kingdom: A. The first period of the Egyptian Civilization is called the . 1. It lasted from to 2. About 3100 B.C. was credited with combining the Upper and Lower Egypt’s together. a. Lower Egypt: located at the top of a map in the northern delta. b. Upper Egypt: located at the in the south at the button of a map 3. King Menes became the first Pharaoh of Egypt. a. : The term given to the king or ruler of Egypt. b. Pharaohs were considered . c. They owned the land and everything in the country. They could do anything they wanted and make any law they wanted to. d. This is known as . 4. King Menes was the first king of the first dynasty of Egypt. a. : A series of rulers from the same family or line. There were a total of dynasties that ruled Egypt. 5. During this time was when many were built. a. Such as . b. This was a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu, also known as Cheops. 5. Since the country was so large Menes created or a. They worked to make sure the commands of the Pharaohs were obeyed. 6. Egyptians developed a written language called . a. Pictures of objects, such as animals or plants, to represent words. b. Writers, or scribes, wrote their messages and kept records on a paper like material made from . 7. In 2200 B.C. Egypt split into .

The Middle Kingdom: B. The second period of the Egyptian Civilization is called the 1. In 2040 B.C., reunited Egypt. a. He created a government. Where the Pharaoh had all of the and nomarchs lost all of their power. b. Egypt became , meaning very wealthy. c. They built temples, structures, , and reservoirs to manage flood waters. 2. Egypt expanded their kingdom . a. They brought , , and from Nubia 3. Egypt also expanded trade with civilizations from the and the . 4. Trade brought and to Egypt. 5. The Middle Kingdom ended when Egypt was conquered by the from Canaan. The New Kingdom: C. The third and final kingdom of Egypt was the . 1. The New kingdom lasted from 1600 B.C. to 1100 B.C. 2. The New kingdom was also known as the of Egypt or the Age of Empire, began. 3. Egyptian armies conquered Syria, Palestine, and the area west of the Euphrates River. 4. Pharaoh Amenhotep IV forced the people to stop worshipping many gods and forced them to worship only one god. a. The sun god, . b. Closed all of the temples of other gods, made a new capital called Akhetaton, and removed the plural form of gods from buildings and text. c. Pharaoh Tutankhamen took power he restored the old gods and made Thebes the capital again. 5. In 1070 B.C. there was a and Egypt began to decline. a. Over the next years Egypt was invaded by the: i. Hittites, Lybians, Nubians, “Sea Peoples”, Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great and the Romans