Analysis Of Egypt's Golden Empire

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Egypt had one of most thriving empire prior to 1500. From 1560 B.C. to 1080 B.C. the empire was known as the Golden Empire. Examining the video called Egypt’s Golden Empire from PBS and Devillier Donegan Enterprises you can learn the Golden Empires Rise and fall. You grasp the empires history from Cities to technology advancements. The focus on this video is to analysis the film for its entertainment value, historic accuracy, and relevance to western civilization.

The entertainment value is quite good to relevance to amusement to history. It provides a lot story telling of unique people and how the contributed to a change and shift in the empire to form the Golden Empire. It provides the basic contents on what it makes a documentary. This

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