Middle Kingdom of Egypt

extraordinary architectural designs. The city was established by Philetaerus who was initially part of Alexander the great army. The city existed in the 2nd and 3rd century it was located on the eastern Mediterranean coast of the kingdom of Anatolia (Yeomans, 2016). The kingdom encompassed large swathes of what is today known as Turkey. Pergamon extended to the Aegean Sea covering the lofty hill on the northern region of broad valley of the Caicus River known today as Bakir. The city had…

Ancient Egypt – A Civilization of Mysteries Egypt has been one of the most impenetrable, spectacular civilizations in human history. Egypt’s footprints are immense on later cultures such as Greek, and Roman. Undoubtedly, Egyptian concepts and perspectives is still impactful, and reflective in modern society, from art, architecture, mathematics, philosophy, and politics, to name a few. Ancient Egyptian civilization spanned for more than 3000 years, with several periods and transitions (Calvert).…

the fought several wars year after year. The two empires became weaker as a result. The Coptic period was experienced in Egypt, during this era; there was a significant shift of religion in the Egyptian culture to Christianity from paganism until the Muslim conquered the country. This was experienced in the third and ninth century when there was a decline of Christians in Egypt (Glubb,…

first Saudi kingdom. Between 1744 and 1818, Wahhabi preachers and fighters embedded their tenets and institutions into Arabian society so deeply that even the return of moderate Sunni ideas to the region when the Ottoman Empire demolished Saudi power did not eradicate extremism. On the contrary, Wahhabism survived and provided the ideological basis for the Saudi return to power as the Emirate of Nejd between 1824 and 1891, with the capital city at Riyadh, and as the third Saudi kingdom starting…

social organization. Over 4,000 years later. The Egyptian pyramids still remain much of their dignity, providing a sight into the kingdom’s amusing and famous past. The start of construction, the pyramid buildings were during the beginning of the Old Kingdom. The most common pyramids are the Great Pyramids of Giza. These pyramids are known for their massive distinctive shape and size. There are a total of ten pyramids located in Giza. The largest three pyramids were made for the Pharaohs during…

an important man-made waterway in Egypt that connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea; it is a critical shipping route operated under the French and British own-ed Suez Canal Company. Developed by French developer Ferdinand de Lesseps, the canal was first opened on November 17, 1869. In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser took control of Egypt; he wanted to build the Aswan Dam on the Nile River to modernize Egypt. The United States and the British had agreed to loan Egypt the money for the Dam, but…

areas well read from the extremely sophisticated Egyptians. The early Egyptians had a class structure. At the top of the class, a god in human form a pharaoh oversaw all (ushistory.org, 2014). At the bottom of the class, slaves and servants. The middle class consisted of farmers, artisans, merchants, scribes, soldiers, and government officials. This structure helped the pharaohs on daily life. See the pharaohs could not carry on all the everyday jobs so he had others distribute work to the…

of humanity. During this era, the earth’s population began to move from the small farming villages characteristic of the Neolithic period towards forming full-fledged civilizations (Duiker, 9). These initial civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, and early China developed in fertile river valleys with abundant arable land. Over the next 3000 years, both the area surrounding the Mediterranean and Chinese society continued to grow, evolve, and increase in both size and sophistication. As…

under certain circumstances. Such as declining health in the wife where you take a second wife but you must stay with your first until she dies. Hammurabi's code was quite literally set in stone, it was carved into a six foot tall obelisk in the middle of the city. So that no one could say they were not aware of the…

this was the first form of writing. It was a representation of speech. It allowed people to keep record like never before. Having this ability gave the opportunity to have a complex society. Cuneiform was from Mesopotamia and hieroglyphics were from Egypt. YHWH: this was the national god of Israelites. This was also the first monotheistic God which means to only believe in one God. Cyrus II: Cyrus II built the Persian empire. He was known for conquering everything, including Mesopotamia, he…