Chapter Two Section One Study Guide
by Thanks to the Nile River Egypt developed into an ancient civilization. A 10 mile wide strip of land on each side of the river made fertile each year by the spring floods, provided food for people, pasture for animals, and the.
1. Thanks to the Nile River Egypt developed into an ancient civilization. A 10 mile wide strip of land on each side of the river made fertile each year by the spring floods, provided food for people, pasture for animals, and the growth of a city.
2.The Nile is one of the few rivers that flow north.
The southern part of Egypt or Upper Egypt is located in the southern part of the country. The lower kingdom, located in the northern part of the country, stretched from the first cataract on the waterfall to the Mediterranean Sea on delta area.
3.3100 B.C. Menes, the king of the upper kingdom united the upper and lower kingdoms together.
4.Ancient Egypt is divided into 3 periods on kingdoms power passed from one dynasty on ruling family to another but the country generally remained united.
5.The Egyptian king or pharaoh was considered a god. The Pharaoh appointed a vizier on chief minster to supervise the government.
6.The great pyramids were built during the old kingdom on 2700 B.C. to 2200 B.C. The stones were moved using no iron tools or wheeled vehicles.
7.During the middle kingdom, 2050 B.C. to 1800 Egypt was invaded by the hykoos, a people from present day turkey that possessed horse drawn chariots. Around 1600 B.C., the hykoos were driven from Egypt.
8.The new kingdom around 1560 B.C. to 1100 B.C. Egypt developed into this empire that stretched from Egypt to the Euphrates River.
9.The last great pharaoh was Ramses II. After Ramses slowly collapsed as a great empire and suffered a series of invasions by such people as Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans.
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