Egyptian culture and civilization is one of the most notorious ancient marvels that as a civilization stand out and still holds the interest of archaeologists and the general public today. This paper will focus on the rise of Egyptian civilization in the Dynastic and Pre-Dynastic with the shift from hunter gatherers to a permanent settlement. Focusing on the rise and fall of Egypt and what lead to mini collapses will be the following topic. Next will be a comparison of the decline of a civilization of the Indus Valley to Ancient Egypt.
The rise of Egypt begins in the Nile River valley with Upper and Lower Egypt, where crop cultivation and domestication takes place leading into the future dynasties of a great civilization. To compare two great civilizations and why they succeed or fail, I will start back to where it all began with hunter and gatherers forming complex societies and discuss the only the fall of Indus valley as hunter gatherers and settlement patterns into complex societies was much the same.
Hunter-Gatherers to Early Farmers
African domestication of animals seemed to take place first and crops to follow which is different from the Near East and Asia. By …show more content…
The Nile divided into Upper and Lower Nile developed differently with each their own cultures (Bard 81). The Badari culture of Upper Egypt has many similarities to the Neolithic before them though many cultural adaptation begin to show. The use of copper in adornment as well as metallurgy is more complex and the use of palettes to paint the body is a new advancement. Houses were circular and made of wattle and daub. The dead were buried in large cemeteries with grave goods (Charvát 25-26). Social stratification begins to appear and graves are lined with distinct goods depending on the grave and spiritual leaders become present with a distinguished outward appearance (Charvát 25
The rise of Egypt begins in the Nile River valley with Upper and Lower Egypt, where crop cultivation and domestication takes place leading into the future dynasties of a great civilization. To compare two great civilizations and why they succeed or fail, I will start back to where it all began with hunter and gatherers forming complex societies and discuss the only the fall of Indus valley as hunter gatherers and settlement patterns into complex societies was much the same.
Hunter-Gatherers to Early Farmers
African domestication of animals seemed to take place first and crops to follow which is different from the Near East and Asia. By …show more content…
The Nile divided into Upper and Lower Nile developed differently with each their own cultures (Bard 81). The Badari culture of Upper Egypt has many similarities to the Neolithic before them though many cultural adaptation begin to show. The use of copper in adornment as well as metallurgy is more complex and the use of palettes to paint the body is a new advancement. Houses were circular and made of wattle and daub. The dead were buried in large cemeteries with grave goods (Charvát 25-26). Social stratification begins to appear and graves are lined with distinct goods depending on the grave and spiritual leaders become present with a distinguished outward appearance (Charvát 25