Egyptian

The Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt

  • 3100BC A Unified Egypt

    3100BC A Unified Egypt
    3100 B.C. - King Menes brought Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt together as one village.
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    The Egyptian Kingdoms

    This timespan covers all three of the ancient Egyptian Kingdoms. The Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom.
  • 2700BC The Old Kingdom Commences

    2700BC The Old Kingdom Commences
    2700 B.C. The Old Kingdom begins. This reign started with a strong leader, King Menes, and as a unified Egypt.
  • 2180BC An Intermediate Period

    2180BC An Intermediate Period
    2180BC An Intermediate Period starts for the first time. This period lasted around 145 years, and was a time where there wasn't a centralized leadership in Egypt.
  • 2055BC The Middle Kingdom

    2055BC The Middle Kingdom
    2055BC The Middle Kingdom begins in Egypt. This reign was a golden age of stability. There was wide expansion of Egypt into Africa and western Asia.
  • 1500BC The New Kingdom

    1500BC The New Kingdom
    1500BC The New Kingdom begins in Egypt. Egypt becomes the most powerful empire in Southwest Asia, through campaigns for their military.
  • 1470BC Pharaoh Replacement

    1470BC Pharaoh Replacement
    1470BC The pharaoh Hatshepsut, who was a woman pretending to be a man, dies. Thutmose III takes her place and becomes pharaoh.
  • 1364BC The New Cult

    1364BC The New Cult
    1364BC Akhenaten or Amenhotep IV, became the new ruler of Egypt. He begins a cult of monotheism, many disputes started because of religious disagreements.
  • 1347BC King Tutankhamen

    1347BC King Tutankhamen
    1347BC King Tutankhamen brought back the polytheistic religion back to Egypt. He is better know as King Tut.
  • 1279BC King Ramses II

    1279BC King Ramses II
    1279BC Ramses II becomes king of Egypt. He fights to regain the lands they lost, lands in Africa and western Asia.
  • 1070BC Post-Empire Egypt

    1070BC Post-Empire Egypt
    1070BC This was te baggining of the post-empire period in Egypt.