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2700 BCE
Old Kingdom
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Period: 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE
Old Kingdom
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Period: 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE
Old Kingdom
Pharaohs were gods -
2600 BCE
Old Kingdom
nobles are below the P in society, they are powerful and rich families , farmers, peasants, and slaves made up over 80 percent of the population -
2500 BCE
Old Kingdom
Ka. when a person died his or her spirit and it was linked to their body and the ka is the persons life force and when they die it leaves the body and becomes a spirit -
2500 BCE
Old Kingdom
they use a method for the mummification process and it took about 70 day to fully wrap the body and the elite people are wealthy people -
2200 BCE
Old Kingdom
pyramids are huge stone tombs with four sides and a point and they built the pyramids to put the tombs inside and they used huge blocks of limestone to build them the Egyptian engineering is when they build the pyramids. They built the pyramids to show the importance of the pharaoh and the bigger the pyramid the more important the pharaoh. The government will pay the slaves with grain for their reward of doing the pyramids. They cared about the pharaoh after death and they used text like spells -
2050 BCE
Middle kingdom
the pharaohs wanted taxes and the nobles didn't want to pay -
2050 BCE
Middle kingdom
a powerful pharaoh took over when things got bad he destroyed his rivals and took over egypt -
2000 BCE
Middle kingdom
when Egypt didn't have pharaohs the nobles wanted to rule -
1900 BCE
Middle kingdom
the middle kingdom became a thing after a period of time without a pharaoh -
1750 BCE
Middle kingdom
the hyksos wanted to rule and take over Egypt and then a guy named Ahmose drove them out -
1550 BCE
New kingdom
ahmose of thebes drove out the hyksos and ruled all of Egypt -
1475 BCE
New kingdom
when the new kingdom was built it took over hyksos, syria, and kush and it was a period of power and glory -
1400 BCE
New kingdom
Queen Hatsheput sent traitors North and South to go trade goods -
1200 BCE
New kingdom
Ramses fought Hittites and how inner- war of attraction -
1550
New kingdom
the new kingdom went from the Euphrates river all the way to kush