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Nile River in Egypt
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source of life
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Mesopotamian Problems
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flooding
salinization people moved |
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Egyptian Solutions
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floods predictible and from river
peace |
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when did egyptian civilization start?
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3100 bce (about the same as ancient mesopotamia)
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Unification by King Narmer
Upper and Lower Egypt |
single gov
free flow of trade no looting/war/attacks economy went up |
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Nile flowed
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South to North
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Zoser established...
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POWER
absolute power to the king keep royal blood in family no big standing army |
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dynasty
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family of royalty
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old kindom ends because...
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chaotic (pyramids = $$$)
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12th dynasty came after the invasion of the...
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desert people
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New Kingdom
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more aggressive
chaos invasion aggressive imperialism |