![]() ![]() We actually now don't believe that it was done by slave labor, but instead it was doneĭuring, you could say, the off season by the peasantsĪs a form of taxation. Get a better understanding of how this was done. Were built in that old period under the Pharaohs SneferuĪnd Khufu, right over here in the 26th century BCE. Here are the pyramids, there's the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is near modern-day Cairo today. Probably most known today in our popular cultureįor what we most associate with ancient Egypt and But I will refer to the kings as pharaohs throughout this video, just to say, hey theseĪre the Egyptian kings. Pharaoh is not really used until we get to the new kingdom. Now the kings are referred to as pharaohs but as we'll see that term Sense of what ancient Egyptian civilization was all about. Over two, 3,000 years, in the course of just a few minutes, but this will give you a Of some of what happened over this thousands of years, and I'm kind of laughing in my head because it's hard to cover Intermediate periods, you have some foreign rule. These intermediate periods where the kingdom or the empire was a little bit more fragmented. Spanning right over here over a thousand years of history. You have the middle kingdomĪnd you have the new kingdom. Which went from about, right from about the 27th century BCE up to about the 17th century BCE. We're gonna go over huge time span, but the ancient EgyptianĬivilization is roughly divided into three kingdoms. Unified upper and lower Egypt into an empire and theĮmpire, as we will see, which lasted thousands of years, every one of these spaces I'm going to mispronounce things every now and then and I'm So we're talking about rightĪround there on our timeline and the reason why this is considered the beginning of the ancientĮgyptian civilization is this is when we believe that upper and lowerĮgypt were first united under the king and there'sĭifferent names used, Narmer sometimes or Menes. It as a civilization around 3,100, 3,150 BCE. Valley for thousands of years, but when we talk about ancient Egypt, we formally talk about The growth of the crops and they had a season of harvest. They had a season of growth, which is now talking about They had a season called the inundation, or the flooding of the river, To the ancient Egyptians that their whole calendar, their seasons, were based on what the This is true even today, is right along the river,Īround that fertile soil, where the agriculture actually occurs. ![]() Nile River, or of Egypt, and actually they are tied very closely, even though Egypt is consideredĪ lot of this region, most of the human population, That some of the first, that one of the first greatĬivilizations emerged here. Specialization of labor and more complex societies. Population densities, which allowed for more And because you have that agriculture, it allowed for higher In fact, human settlement we believe was along this Nile River Valley as far as 6,000 BCE or 8,000 years ago, and it might have been thereĮven further back in time. One of the first places that we see agriculture emerging during the neolithic period. The surrounding soil fertile, they're suitable for agriculture, and the Nile Valley is River is so important, we studied this multiple times, rivers are a source of fresh water, when they flood they make The Upper Nile is up river, it's also flowing from higher elevations to lower elevations. South of the Lower Nile, of the Lower Nile. The river are upriver and they are actuallyĬalled the Upper Nile. Into the Mediterranean Sea and because it has this northward flow, the southern parts of So the Nile River, itįlows from, you could say, eastern mid-Africa up If it was flowing the other way, it would be a right-side-up delta. The delta, which is whereĪ river opens into the sea, is called a delta because,Īs you can see, these rivers, you can even see it from the satellite pictures right over here, they start branching up a bunch and you have this upsideĭown triangular region, which looks a little bit like an upside down Greek letter delta, so that's why river delta is called that. ![]() ![]() Tributaries of the Nile Rover start even south of this picture and the water flows northward and eventually its delta River as the longest river and it sources the In both ancient Egypt and in modern Egypt is the Nile River that you see in blue right over here. Geographically pretty closely to the modern day state ofĮgypt in northeast Africa. We are going to give ourselves an overview of ancient Egypt, which corresponds ![]()
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