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Warm Up Question:
Write down the relative location of Egypt What is it near?
Can you name any landforms around it?
What continent is it on?
Egyptian History Timeline
2920-2575 BCEEarly Dynastic
Period: The first pharaohs unify
Egypt into a powerful kingdom
2575-2134 BCE Old Kingdom: Big
advances in technology and architecture;
pyramids built in Giza
2040-1640 BCE Middle Kingdom:
Egypt’s population,
religion, and arts flourish
1550-1070 BCE New Kingdom: Egypt
expands into Syria and Nubia; international
trade routes established
712-332 BCE Late Period:
Persians invade and annex Egypt
332-304 BCE Alexander the Great
defeats Persians; establishes new
capital in Egypt called Alexandria
30 BCE Egypt falls to
Roman Empire
Vocabulary
Black Land: the fertile area fed by the Nile where the soil is rich
Red Land: the deserts to the east and west of the Nile
Tributaries: rivers and streams that flow into a larger “parent” river
Papyrus: a plant with fibrous inner stems used to make paper
Irrigation: diverting water to farmland using ditches, canals and pipes