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Ancient Egypt

By Jordyn04
  • 9000 BCE
    9000 BCE

    9000 BCE

    Hunter-gatherers in the Middle East and North Africa are collecting wild grains;the herders will be called the Zargo's Mountains around the modern Iran-Iraq border beginning to herd flocks of wild goats and sheep
  • 4500 BCE
    4500 BCE

    4500 BCE

    This is the time when Potter wheels, sails and ploughs are made along the Tigris and Euphrates. Small villages start turning into cities.
  • 3500 BCE
    3500 BCE

    3500 BCE

    Pictographs start to be used in Egypt and Mesopotamia. Grass land in North Africa is drying up, the Sahara desert is getting bigger. Many nomads are moving to the land along the Nile river.
  • 2630 BCE
    2630 BCE

    2630 BCE

    Djoser becomes Pharoh. The first pyramid is built by Imhotep
  • 2528 BCE
    2528 BCE

    2528 BCE

    The Pharaoh Khufu ( Cheops ) is buried in the first and largest pyramids at Giza
  • 2134 BCE
    2134 BCE

    2134 BCE

    Central rule fails in Egypt. Local rulers struggle for power
  • 1333 BCE
    1333 BCE

    1333 BCE

    9 year old Tutankhamen becomes Pharaoh. Egypt goes back to the worship of aumun
  • 334-332 BCE
    332 BCE

    334-332 BCE

    Alexand the great of Macedon takes over Egypt, Persia, Samarkand and Babylon. When he died his general Ptolemy seizes power in Gupta. Mesopotamia as well go by Greek rules for another to centuries.
  • 51 BCE
    51 BCE

    51 BCE

    Cleopatra who was a descendant of Ptolemy, becomes queen of Egypt
  • 30 BCE
    30 BCE

    30 BCE

    Cleopatra dies;Egypt becomes a province of the Roman Empire