1. Ancient Egypt
Module 2.3

2. Nile River

4. Annual Flooding

5. The Fertile Nile Valley

6. Narmer unifies Lower and Upper

7. Kingdoms of Egypt The Old Kingdom 2660 BC-2180 BC
Narmer unifying Upper and Lower Egypt
Pyramids (the great age)
Pharaohs lost power and control

8. Old Kingdom (Orange)

9. Kingdoms of Egypt The Middle Kingdom 2040 BC-1640 BC
Built canal from Nile to Red Sea
Built dykes for irrigation
Created thousands of acres of farmland
Ended when he Hyksos (Palestine) took control of Egypt
Hebrews migrated to Egypt during the Hyksos reign

10. Kingdoms of Egypt The New Kingdom 1550 BC-1070 BC
Egyptian conquests into Syria and Palestine
Conflict with Hittites
Temples and Statues
Valley of the Kings and Queens
Decline was due to years of invasions…possibly the Philistines

11. New Kingdom

12. Old Kingdom vs. New Kingdom

13. Farming and Fishing

14. Papyrus--Paper
Scroll Piece
Papyrus Plant

15. Hieroglyphics

16. Hieroglyphics “Alphabet”

17. Egyptian Math 1 10
100
1000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
What number is this?

18. Egyptian Calendar

20. Mummification

21. Egyptian Mummies
Ramses II
Seti I
Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep II

22. Journey to the Underworld

23. Egyptian Book of the Dead

24. Re-Sun God

25. Osiris- God of Life and Death

26. Steppe Pyramid in Saqqara

27. “Bent Pyramid” of King Sneferu

28. Giza Pyramid Complex

29. Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu

30. Great Sphinx of Giza

31. Valley of the Kings

32. Valley of the Queens

33. Hatshepsut

34. Thutmose III

35. Akhenaton 1352 BC-1336 BC

36. Armana

37. Nefertiti

38. King Tutankhamen

39. Howard Carter, 1922

40. Entrance to King Tut’s Tomb

41. King Tut

42. King Tut’s Tomb

43. Treasures in King Tut’s Tomb

44. Ramses II

45. Great Temple at Abu Simbel

46. Nubia

47. Nubia (3100 BCE – 350 CE) and Egypt
Old Kingdom (2660 – 2180 BCE)
Trade
Middle Kingdom (2040 – 1640 BCE)
Sought control of gold mines in desert east of Nile
Sought direct access to luxury goods, Cutting out the Nubian traders (middle men, decreasing cost)
Built forts south of second cataract protect Kingdom and to control trade
Rise of Kush No connection with Egypt
New Kingdom (1532 – 1070 BCE)
Destroyed Kush
Egyptian official ruled Nubia “ Overseer of Southern Lands”
Egypt exploited gold mines / many Nubian deaths
Imposed Egyptian culture
Coerced submission by holding family member captive
Served as Archers in Egyptian military
Modeled Egyptian Architecture
Adopted Gods – evidence of Amon

48. Nubia and Egypt – 700BCE New Kingdom falls in 1080
Powerful new Native Kingdom emerges in Southern Nubia
800 – 400 BCE headquarters located in Napata, an old Egyptian headquarters
From 400 BCE to 400 CE – the center of the Kindgom was located are MEROE
From 712 BCE to 660 BCE Nubian Kings ruled all of Egypt – ruled like Egyptian rulers (took control of Egypt from Libyan invaders)
Kept Nubian names
Physical features depicted as sub-saharan peoples
Egyptian renaissance
Rule from the city of Memphis – the Old Kingdom Capitol
Driven back south to Nubia by Assyrian Empire in retaliation to their efforts to aid local ruler in Palestine who were struggling against the Assyrian Empire

49. Egyptian Influence in Nubia
Religion
Architecture
Language - Heiroglyphics
Royal rituals

50. Nubia

52. Hittites: Iron and Chariots

53. Phoenicians
Chapter 2 Section 3

54. Present-day Lebanon

55. Shipbuilders

56. Alphabet
Symbols represent a sound
Aleph and Beth- first two letters

57. Assyrians

58. Assyrians

59. Sennacherib (705 BC-681 BC)

60. Ashurbanipal (668 BC-627 BC)