How Did Egypt Rise To Power

Egypt is known as one of the oldest, wealthiest and most popular civilizations in ancient history. From the early times when hunters and gathers formulated the base of Egypt, to the continual ages of their great achievements. Egypt has far amazed, and interested archeologist and scientists for centuries, because of its advanced technology, sophisticated writing system and intricate bureaucracy (sciencenes.org). Through all the greatness of Egypt one has yet to know what happened to this civilization. What caused it to be such a success, and what led to his downfall. In this paper my focus of study would be how the Egyptians rose to power. The organization and leadership of their government, and the causes and break up that led to the fall of …show more content…
Nile provided great agricultural success for Egypt and with the rivers lush land Egypt’s civilization was able to expand. Soon after around 3100 B.C they developed a writing system. The Egyptians found that communication was important and keeping a record was vital to their culture. So they invented written scripts. Hieroglyphics is one of the most popular ones but several others have also been created (Ian, 137, 83). The Egyptians also controlled Nubia “Spurred by threats from the south, Egypt’s New Kingdom pharaohs mounted military campaigns against Nubia, and by the Reign of Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC) Egyptians controlled Nubia to the 4th cataract” (oi.uchicago.edu).The Egyptian government insured that the flow of gold would go to Egypt. Nubia had also contributed many products such as ivory, animal skin, cattle ebony and dates to name a few. Egypt and Nubia prospered from