THE OLD KINGDO

MThe Age of the Pyramids

The first pharaoh of the

Old Kingdom was King Menes. Some other pharaohs were Pepi I and Pepi II.

The Pharaoh

Most Egyptians

never ventured far from there home or left the Nile. The remaining few were seen and sometimes ventured to Nubia.

New Horizons

The Concept of drawing

symbols came from Mesopotamia where the Sumerians lived. Their written language was known as Cuneiform. The Egyptians experimented with written languages and Hieroglyphs were formed.

Concept of Writing Arrives

Asians living down in

Sinai traded with cities on the Mediterranean coast. Toward the end of the Old Kingdom Pepi I drove the local tribesman out and claimed Sinai for Egypt

The Copper Age

By 2600 B.C the

Egyptians had mastered several different skills. With these different skills they used to engineer gigantic pyramids that have lasted thousands of years.

Pyramids

The decline of the Old

Kingdom began during the sixth dynasty this was caused from numerous reasons. The last pharaoh in the Old Kingdom was Pepi II. The Old Kingdom declined because Egypt was being cheated out of taxes and was having low floods. :

Decline and End of the Old Kingdom