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Introduction	The Middle Kingdom
The Ancient Age	The Second Middle Age
The Old Kingdom	The Modern Kingdom
The First Middle Age	The Late Age

The history of ancient Egypt consists of two main elements : The pharaoh Age Which settled for 3 thousand Years And the Greek-Roman Age Which settled for thousand of years.The Old Egyptian historician "Maneton" Parted the Pharaoh Age to 30 Families Rulled Egypt one After one,And the other historicians parted the pharaoh history for three parts : The old kingdom,The middle kingdom And the modern kingdom.Before the Old kingdom there was the Ancient Age it was the establishing age.

In 3200 B.C. the pharaoh Narmer united the country,Made the first central government in it and the first ruling family in the country,Then the bases of the ancient Egyptian civilization started to be built,Narmer wanted to secure the country's unity so he built the city of Memfis between the delta and Upper Egypt.The following Kings after Narmer made great efforts in order to make the country powerfull,safe and bigger.

The Pharaoh Narmer While uniting the south and the north of Egypt

The age of this kingdom was called the Age of the Egyptian youth because Egypt was very safe and powerful during it,That made it easy to develop the country's economy,culture and art.The kings of the old kingdom ruled Egypt in 2800 B.C.,They built The oldest pyramid which was called the pyramid of Zosar in Saqqara.Also in this age the Egyptians built the Giza pyramids of Khofo,Khafraa and Mankawraa.During the days of this kingdom Egypt was very safe it had an orgnaized government which governed the country well.

The Pharaoh Mankawraa And his wife in boston museum,The United States

The pharaoh Khafraa.


This age started in 2200 B.C. when the governer hadn't been able to govern the country any more,And the civil wars started and the problems came over the country one after one untill The Pharaoh Second Mantohotob succeeded to reunit the country.

When The Pharaoh Second Mantohotob the prince of Tiba managed to reunit the whole country under his control in 2065 B.C. He setup a new powerfull government which succeeded to make the country safe again,In 2000 B.C. The Pharaoh First Emenmhat ruled the country he was a good ruler who got the biggest role improving the country again.After The Pharaoh First Emenmhat there was 7 Pharaohs their ages were prosperous espicially The Pharaoh Third Snosert And The Pharaoh Third Emenmehat.The End of the middle kingdom was just like the End of the old kingdom because after The Pharaoh Third Emenmehat weak Pharaohs ruled the country so the Middle Kingdom was destroyed.and a black age started it was the second middle age.

The Pharaoh Third Tohotmos in the Egyptian Musuem

After the fall of the 12th family the last family in the middle kingdom in 1775 B.C..Every one wanted to take over the rulling chair and every thing in the country began to corrupt again returning to the conditions after the fall of the old kingdom.In 1725 B.C. the country was very weak that was a strong reason to facilitate the occupation which the villagers from Asia who were called the Heksos performed.They occupied the delta and a small area from middle Egypt.Also the Nobians occupied the southern part of the country so the unoccupied area was just a narrow space in Upper Egypt which was rulled by the princes of Tiba.The Heksos settled in Egypt for a century approximally,All this time the Egyptians weren't behaving friendly to them and there were no symbols of cooperation between the occupiers and the Egyptians still the Heksos are their enemies.

When the Heksos power began to weaken princes of Tiba began to struggle to regain the stolen liberty of Egypt and they became successful when the Pharaoh Ahmos has been managed to invade the Heksos's capital city of Awares in the delta,Then he followed them to Palastine where he beat them again finishing a long age of occupation and foriegn control.And the mortal kingdom of Heksos never became exist again in the whole history.

The Pharaoh Ahmos.

After the Pharaoh Ahmos had beaten the Heksos he returned to Egypt in 1571 B.C.,Where he exterminated the nobian roits,Then he started improving the country so the historicians concidered him the leader of a new wonderful age it's the age of The Modern Kingdom,The sudden attack of the Heksos was a good lesson for the Egyptians as it made them realise the importance of the military power,So they established an orgnaized army supported with very modern weapons in these days Like the military carriages.

The Pharaoh First Tohotmos was one of the best Kings of the 18th family,His daughter Hatshebsot her days was The age of peace and construction,The pharaoh Third Tohotmos was one of the greatest Ancient Egyptian kings also he was a great military commander that he was famous with his courage,But the country conditions changed after the religious revolution which The Pharaoh Eknatoon started,And the country's managment has been corrupted That made the Pharaoh Hoor Moheb make rules which stopped the corrupt people so he made it easier to the following kings to improve the country again.

After the death of The Pharaoh Hoor Moheb a new family ruled The country,It was the 19th Family Which tried to take the control of the country again and it succeded to do this,The Pharaoh Second Ramses Was the most famous Pharaoh of ancient Egypt,And his wars was the last military efforts which the modern kingdom did to save the country's peace and unity,His wars with the Haytheyeen ended with signing a peace treaty between the two kings after no one of them had achieved a complete victory against the other in the battle of Kadesh,This treaty was the first treaty in the whole history.Although the all of events the position of the Pharaoh began to weaken and the Attacks of the Lebians And the citizens of the Mediterranean sea Began to be several,The End of the days of the modern Kingdom happened when the control of the Pharaoh vanished completely And the power of the priests of the temples has been extremely increased so their cheif had stolen the rulling chair.

The Pharaoh Eknatoon.

The Pharaoh Second Ramsis.

The mummy of the Pharaoh Second Ramsis.


The greatness days went away,And the bugs began to be several over the country and a long age of darkness started which was the end of the Pharonic history,It was the Age of weakness and foriegn invades except a short period when The Egyptians tried to regain their glory.

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