First Intermediate Period
2134 B.C. - 2040 B.C.
Civil War
-Decentralized
Pyramid building stopped
- Destruction of crops
- Causality rates high
- Population drop
- Productivity drop
Middle Kingdom
2040 B.C. - 1640 B.C.
Rise of the Pharaohs
- Class of priests
(Priests very powerful) - Expansion...Conquer Nubia
- Military Expeditions to Palestine & Syria
- Trade with Mesopotamia & Mediterranean
Government works projects
- Housing
- Roads
- irrigation
- Canal - connected Nile to Red Sea.
Second Intermediate Period
1640 B.C. - 1532 B.C.
Invaded by Hyksos
- Conflict as Egyptians try to overthrow invaders
New Kingdom
1532 B.C. - 1070 B.C.
Last period of stability & glory for ancient Egypt. They conquered Libya : Syria
Developed standing army with weapons and technology that they got from the Hyksos.
- Fights over succession and began to fall apart.
EGYPT DECLINE
1070 B.C. - 332 B.C.
- Weak Pharaohs
- Some invasions
- Nubians
- Persians
- Phoenicians
- Assyrians
- Hittites
332 B.C. - Alexander the Great