Early Civilization

By nehutch9
  • Jan 30, 1070

    New Kingdom ended

    It collapsed
  • Jan 30, 1200

    Invasions by the "sea peoples"

    Drove Egyptians back within their old frontiers
  • Jan 30, 1550

    New Kingdom was established

    Used new weapons to drive out the Hyksos and reunite Egypt

  • The Middle Kingdom came to an end

    Invasion of Egypt by a group of people from western Asia known as the Hyksos

  • System of warring city-states lasted until 1792

    City-state south of Akkad, Hammurabi came control. Gained power over Sumer and Akkad. Creating new Mesopotamia kingdom

  • Middle Kingdom was created

    New dynasty gained control of all Egypt

  • Neighbors attacked the Akkadian empire

    The empire fell

  • Sargon overran Sumerian city-states

    He built the first empire in world history

  • Built at Giza the great pyramid was built

    It covers 13 acers. 756ft on each side of its base, and stands 481ft tall

  • One system of writing started

    The Greeks later called this earliest Egyptian writing hieroglyphics

  • Egypts history begins

    King Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt to a single kingdom and created the first royal dynasty