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Last Update
2/1/07
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Egyptian History
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Period
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Years (BC)
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Dynasties
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Capital
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Key Events
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Predynastic
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5000-3100
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Old Kingdom
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3100-2300
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1-6
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Memphis
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Narmer Unifies
Pyramid Age
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1st Intermediate
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2300-2000
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7-10
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Middle Kingdom
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2000-1800
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11-12
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Fayyum
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Canals, dams, Pharaoh loses divinity
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2nd Intermediate
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1800-1500
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13-17
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Tanis
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Hyksos rule, Asiatic chariot wheel, horses
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New Kingdom:
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1500-1100
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18-20
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Thebes
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Empire Period, large military
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3rd Intermediate
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1100-700
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21-24
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Decline of power
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Late Kingdom
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700-332
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25-27
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Nubians unify
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Persian
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525-332
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18-30
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Cambyses
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Hellenistic
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332-30
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Alexandria
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Alexander, Rise of Ptolemies
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Roman
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30-AD 330
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Alexandria
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Breadbasket of Rome
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Byzantine
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AD 330-640
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Coptic Church
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Umayyad
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AD 640-750
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Abbasid
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AD 750-970
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Cairo 962
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Fatamid
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970-1170
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Crusades
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Ayyubid
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1170-1250
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Saladin
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Mamluk
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1250-1517
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Ottoman
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1517-1882
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Napoleon 1798
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British
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1882-1922
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Kingdom
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1922-52
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Farouk
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Independent
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1952-
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Nasser
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