The Egyptian And Mesopotamian Empires
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Egyptian Empire
The origins of ancient Egyptian civilization, which may regard as
one of the fountainheads of the Western culture, cannot be established with
certainty. Archaeological evidence suggests that early dwellers in the Nile
Valley were influenced by cultures of the Near East, but the deg ....
Middle of paper
.... General agreement exists on the division of Egyptian history, up
to the conquest of Alexander the Great, into Old, Middle, and New kingdoms
with intermediate periods , followed by the late and Ptolemaic periods, but
chronology and genealogy are continually being refined in light of new
evidence and by the use of increasingly sophisticated dating techniques.
Some 60,000 years ago the Nile River began its yearly inundation of
the land along the banks, leaving behind silt ( a very ric ....
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