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Egypt Study Guide
Term | Date |
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Egyptian Calendar formed | Organized Farming begins | 5000 BC |
Sumer develops Cuneiform Writing | ~4500 BC |
Depictions of Afterlife | gods in Tombs | 4000 BC |
Early Hieroglyphics found | ~3200 BC |
Menes 1st king to unite upper and lower Egypt | 3150 BC |
Djoser builds 1st pyramids | ~2670 BC |
Pharaohs begin | 2613 BC |
Old Kingdom | 2613 - 2181 BC |
Khufu builds Great Pyramid of Giza | 2560 BC |
Great sphinx built | 2500 BC |
Middle Kingdom | 2040 - 1782 BC |
13th dynasty (Likely Exodus) | 1653 BC |
Kingdom of Kush | 1700 BC |
Empire reaches greatest extent under Thutmose I | 1504 BC |
Hatshepsut | 1479 BC |
New Kingdom | 1570 - 1070 BC |
Ramses II (Ramses exodus theory) | 1303 BC |
Alexander the Great Conquers Egypt | 332 BC |
Cleopatra last Pharaoh | 51 BC |
Egypt Conquered by Rome | (Sometime after the death of Cleopatra) |
Sassanids conquer Egypt | 618 AD |
Muslim Rule Begins | 642 AD |
Minoan Civilization | 3000 - 1100 BC |
Mycenaen Civilization | 1300 - 1000 BC |
Greek Dark Ages | 1000 BC |
Trojan Wars | ~1250 BC |
Thera (Santorini) destroys Minoan Capital | ~1500 BC |
First Olympics | 776 BC |
Homer records Iliad & Odyssey | 770 BC |
Greek Alphabet | 750 BC |
Solon introduces proto-democracy in Athens | 594 BC |
Pythagoras Born | 569 BC |
Persian Wars (Marathon, Thermopylae, & Salamis | 497 - 479 BC |
Classical Greece |