History
| History of Egypt | ||||||||||
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| Prehistoric Egypt pre–3100 BCE | ||||||||||
| Ancient Egypt | ||||||||||
| Early Dynastic Period 3100–2686 BCE | ||||||||||
| Old Kingdom 2686–2181 BCE | ||||||||||
| 1st Intermediate Period 2181–2055 BCE | ||||||||||
| Middle Kingdom 2055–1650 BCE | ||||||||||
| 2nd Intermediate Period 1650–1550 BCE | ||||||||||
| New Kingdom 1550–1069 BCE | ||||||||||
| 3rd Intermediate Period 1069–664 BCE | ||||||||||
| Late Period 664–332 BCE | ||||||||||
| Classical Antiquity | ||||||||||
| Achaemenid Egypt 525–332 BCE | ||||||||||
| Ptolemaic Egypt 332–30 BCE | ||||||||||
| Roman & Byzantine Egypt 30 BCE–641 CE | ||||||||||
| Sassanid Egypt 621–629 | ||||||||||
| Middle Ages | ||||||||||
| Arab Egypt 641–969 | ||||||||||
| Fatimid Egypt 969–1171 | ||||||||||
| Ayyubid Egypt 1171–1250 | ||||||||||
| Mamluk Egypt 1250–1517 | ||||||||||
| Early Modern | ||||||||||
| Ottoman Egypt 1517–1867 | ||||||||||
| French occupation 1798–1801 | ||||||||||
| Egypt under Muhammad Ali 1805–1882 | ||||||||||
| Khedivate of Egypt 1867–1914 | ||||||||||
| Modern Egypt | ||||||||||
| British occupation 1882–1953 | ||||||||||
| Sultanate of Egypt 1914–1922 | ||||||||||
| Kingdom of Egypt 1922–1953 | ||||||||||
| Republic 1953–present | ||||||||||
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| Dynasties of Ancient Egypt |
| Predynastic Egypt |
| Protodynastic Period |
| Early Dynastic Period |
| Old Kingdom |
| First Intermediate Period |
| Middle Kingdom |
| Second Intermediate Period |
| New Kingdom |
| Third Intermediate Period |
| First Persian Period |
| Late Period |
| Second Persian Period |
| Ptolemaic Dynasty |
The Nile has been the lifeline of its region for much of human history. The fertile floodplain of the Nile gave humans the opportunity to develop a settled agricultural economy and a more sophisticated, centralized society that became a cornerstone in the history of human civilization. Nomadic modern human hunter-gatherers began living in the Nile valley through the end of the Middle Pleistocene some 120 thousand years ago. By the late Paleolithic period, the arid climate of Northern Africa became increasingly hot and dry, forcing the populations of the area to concentrate along the region.
It is important to realize that the dates given, are mostly based on speculations rather than facts. The further historians delve into the past, the harder it is to date the events in relationship with others. Since it is hard to date stones with radiocarbon dating, we must not give an absolute importance to exact dates. The further we advance in dating technology, the more we realize that Ancient Egypt is probably more ancient than history gives it.
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“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“... that there is no other way,
That the history of creation proceeds according to
Stringent laws, and that things
Do get done in this way, but never the things
We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately
To see come into being.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)