Ancient Egypt

I have just begun a new course in ancient history and the first week we did a world tour to study some of the civilizations around the known world. One of my favorites civilizations was ancient Egypt, which is located in Northeastern Africa beside the Nile River. Ancient civilizations settled near rivers like the Nile because it made trade easier, instead of taking wagons across difficult terrain they could take a boat down a river which was much less hazardous.

             Egypt was the largest empire in Africa and it went through many different periods such as the Old Kingdom, the Early Bronze Age, and the Middle Kingdom but it reached its peak during the New Kingdom from 1550-1069 B.C. in the Ramesside period. Unfortunately, it went into slow decline after it reached the pinnacle of its power because it was invaded or conquered by foreign people groups such as the Hyksos, Libyans, Nubians, Assyrians, and Babylonians in the third intermediate period that lasted from 1069-653 B.C.

             In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s death, one of his generals named Ptolemy Soter, made himself ruler over Egypt and ruled until 30 B.C., when under Cleopatra it was taken over by the Romans and became a Roman territory and that ended Ancient Egypt. Egypt was a thriving civilization but they could not withstand the power of Rome.

Sources: Wikipedia Ancient Egypt