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11,000 BCE
Settlement in the Nile Valley
People began to settle in the Nile Valley. They started hunting and gathering food, then began to grow crops, have animals and build homes on the river banks. -
6000 BCE
Irrigation Begins
The Egyptian people took advantage of the Nile's annual flooding and began irrigating their fields. -
3100 BCE
King Menes Unites Upper and Lower Egypt
King Menes changes Egyptian history by reuniting the two kingdoms. Kings now wore a double crown. -
Period: 3100 BCE to 2100 BCE
Old Kingdom (Age of Pyramids)
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2600 BCE
Pharaoh Khufu orders construction of Great Pyramid
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2533 BCE
Great Sphinx Completed
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Period: 2100 BCE to 1800 BCE
Middle Kingdom
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Period: 1991 BCE to 1786 BCE
Egypt expands to Lower Nubia. Art/literature flourish.
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Period: 1800 BCE to 1600 BCE
Hyksos Rule
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE
New Kingdom (Egyptian Empire)
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Period: 1504 BCE to 1450 BCE
Reign of Thutmose III; empire expands to Syria.
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Period: 1503 BCE to 1482 BCE
Queen Hatshepsut rules.
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1500 BCE
Egyptians build a mighty empire.
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1100 BCE
End of Egyptian Empire
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Rosetta Stone discovered