Class One 2012Ancient Egyptian History: The Last Thousand Years of the

Egyptian Empire the Decline Fall 2012 and Spring 2013Adjunct Professor Joe Boisvert

Long ago the Egyptian People Emerged from the hunting and gathering groups and began the long journey to Civilization.

They seemed to evolve fully formed into a organized culture with a Religion and a Strong Ritualized Burial Concept.

The Population of Egypt when from an Approximate low of three million to a high Near or slightly exceeding Ten Million

PRE-DYNASTICOLD KINGDOM

FIRST INTERMEDIATEMIDDLE KINGDOM

SECOND INTERMEDIATENEW KINGDOM

DECLINE OF EGYPT

The Old Kingdom was the First Historical Period of Egyptian History which was to last Three Thousand Years, this first period was the time of the Pyramid and the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt under Pharaoh Namur

Great MonumentsDevelopment of Writing

Medicine and SurgeryAfter Life for Pharaoh

Pyramid Text

Intermediate Periods

Time of TurmoilCreation of Literature

Ordinary People Learn About Eternal LifeInvasions

Exodus

Development of Coffin TextFabulous Jewelry

End of Pyramids Beginning Of Burial Temples

Everyone (Rich) Can Reach For Afterlife

Akhenaton Believed in Aton the One Single God the Majority of Egyptians before and After believed in Amon Re

Akhenaton and Nefertiti First in Written Record to Believe in One God

New Kingdom – New Ideas

King Tut From King Tut’s Grave

Pharaohs Throne Changes in Egyptian Art – Dwarfs where Scared in Ancient Egypt

Ramses Death Mask

Decline of the Egyptian Civilization

Part of the reason for Egypt's (Kermit's) decline was due to inevitability. All civilizations eventually decline after reaching a peak. After hundreds of millenniums of uninterrupted existence, a series of internal problems and invasions by outside cultures(Persian, Hyksos, Greek, Roman) signaled the end.

In 954 B.C. the Libyans came in from the western hills, and laid about them with fury.In 722 the Ethiopians entered from the south, and avenged their ancient slavery;In 674 the Assyrians swept down from the north and subjected priest-ridden Egypt to tribute.

DECLINE OF EGYPT

THE DECLINEINVOLVED

INVASION AFTER INVASIONAFRICAN NATIONS

PERSIANSGREEKS ROMANS

CHRISTIANS