Egyptian Timeline

By lindsaylaronde
  • 100

    Predynastic Period (3300-2960 BCE)

    -Menes and his heirs were able to consolidate their power and achieve absolute rule in Egypt.
    - Period where culture began to change and grow
    -evidence of organized settlement
    - Beginning of people expressing themselves through writing
  • Period: 100 to 400

    History

  • 150

    Early Dynastic Period (2960-2649)

    -Also referred to as Narmer or Aha
    - Founded the city of Memphis
    -Created the Nation State
    - The capital moved from Abydos to Memphis
    - Art, agriculture and religion began to take shape
    - Manetho said that the first king of the unified Upper and Lower Egypt was Menes, who was the earliest recorded king of the first Dynasty
  • 200

    Old Kingdom 2 (2649-2150)

    • Egyptians became incredibly wealthy with both materials and knowledge
    • Timber came from Syria, Wine and oil came from Crete and pottery wheels came from Mesopotamia, and were introduced to Egypt during the life of the Old Kingdom.
  • 200

    Old Kingdom (2649-2150)

    • Lower Egypt (Delta Kingdom) was ruled by a monarchy
    • Symbolized with a red crown
    • Upper Egypt was symbolized with a white crown King Menes was believed to unite Egypt and wore a double crown (both white and red) to symbolize the unity
    • For 400 years, King Menes and his heirs were able to rule over all of Egypt
    • Old Kingdom peaked through engaging trades throughout the Mediterranean and by mining copper in the Sinai Peninsula
    • Egyptians became incredibly wealthy with both materials a
  • 250

    Middle Kingdom (1991-1700 BCE)

    -By 2050 BCE Egypt was ruled by Theban kings who would rule for the next 250 years
    -Theban supremacy was also reflected in the rise to national prominence of the god Amon, who was merged with the Sun God Re to become Amon-Re.
    -Economic and political boundaries of Egypt were expanded.
    -Egypt experiences two century
  • 300

    New Kingdom (1550- 1070 BCE)

    During the New Kingdom some of the most familiar names in pharaohs ruled over ancient Egypt
    -Hatshepsut was the wife of Thutmose II
    -She adopted the status of King, while Thutmose III was young
    -She is remembered as history's first great female ruler
    -King Akhenation
    -Known as the "heretic" king.
    -He introduced monotheism to Egyptian culture
    -King Tutankhamen (King Tut)
    -"Boy King"
    -Prince at age 8
    -Was murdered at age 17 -Ramses II
    -He was the last great Egyptian king
    -Ruled for 67 years
  • 350

    Late Dynastic Period (688- 343 BCE)

    Last period of Egyptian leadership
    - Lead to the diminishing of Egyptian power
    - A canal was built, connecting the Read Sea and Nile River
    - the 25-30th dynasties ruled
    - Ends with Persian occupation
    - Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King, liberated Egypt from the Persian occupation and became Egypt's ruler.
  • 400

    Ptolemaic Period (332- 30 BCE)

    -Cleopatra was the last independent ruler she was remembered for her love affairs with two Roman Leaders, she committed suicide when invaded by the Roman General Octavian
    -Egypt became a province of Rome