Periods of Ancient Egyptian History

Early Dynastic Period (3100-2890 BC)

History Channel, There is proof of human action in the Western Desert as far back as 8000 BC, yet what we see as antiquated Egypt started in 3100 BC with the unification of Upper (southern) and Lower (northern) Egypt by King Narmer (otherwise called Menes), who made a capital at Memphis.

Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BC)

Otherwise called the Age of the Pyramids, progressive lines of rulers raised a chain of pyramids, the best of which were the trio at Giza. In this manner, poor harvests exhausted the illustrious coffers, which prompted a decrease in imperial force, connoted by a diminishing in the span of pyramids.

To begin with Intermediate Period (2181-2055 BC)

History Channel, Amid this unsteady time of antiquated Egyptian history there were various fleeting rulers. The debilitating of unified force prompted the foundation of nearby administrations, outstandingly at Herakleopolis in the Fayoum Oasis and Thebes in the south.

Center Kingdom (2055-1650 BC)

The effective warlord Montuhotep II vanquished the north to rejoin the nation with Thebes (cutting edge Luxor) as its new capital, which developed into a noteworthy city.

Over the waterway, the main tombs and funerary sanctuaries were developed at the foot of the Theban Hills on the west bank of the Nile.

Second Intermediate Period (1650-1550 BC)

Vagrants from terrains north of Egypt, alluded to as Hyksos, expected control and associated with Nubia to overwhelm southern Egypt. The nation got to be liable to irregular common war.

New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)

History Channel, With the reunification of north and south and the ejection of the Hyksos, Egypt entered a Golden Age, extending its guideline into Asia Minor and to the extent the Euphrates. Caught treasures improved the illustrious powerbase at Karnak, seat of the mightiest pharaohs including Ramses II.

Third Intermediate Period (1069-715 BC)

The New Kingdom offered approach to four centuries of disunity and outside penetration, with Egypt again isolated into north (controlled from Tanis in the Delta) and south (managed by the clerics of Karnak) and subject to attack by Libyans and Nubians.

Late Period (747-332 BC)

The Late Period started with the Assyrian intrusion of Egypt, trailed by the

Persians in 525 BC. The Persians ruled for a long time interfered with just by the brief 30th Dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs (380-343 BC), the last local rulers until the Revolution of 1952.

Graeco-Roman Period (332-30 BC)

In 332 BC the Macedonian lord Alexander the Great "freed" Egypt from the Persians and established his new capital, Alexandria, on the Mediterranean.

He was succeeded by his trusted general Ptolemy, who established a tradition that ruled for a long time finishing with the sensational demise of the remainder of the Ptolemies, Cleopatra VII, significant other of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.

After the Pharaohs

With the thrashing and suicide of Cleopatra in 30 BC, Egypt turned out to be a piece of the Roman realm. It stayed under the standard of Rome, trailed by that of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman domain, until the landing of overcoming Arab armed forces in AD 640.