Senin, 06 Februari 2012

Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization in northeastern Africa. Civilization is centered along the mid to lower reaches of the Nile which heyday at about the 2nd century BC, the period known as the New Kingdom period. Region covers an area of ​​the Nile Delta in the north, to Jebel Barkal at the Fourth Nile Cataract. At some particular time, the Egyptian civilization extending to the southern Levant, Eastern Desert, the coastal Red Sea, Sinai Peninsula and the Western Desert (focused on the few oases).
Ancient Egyptian civilization evolved over more than three and a half centuries. Starting with the initial unification groups that exist in the Nile Valley around 3150 BC, this civilization has traditionally been considered an end in about 31 BC, during the early Roman Empire conquered and absorbed the Egyptian Ptolemy as part of the Roman province. While this is not the first foreign occupation of Egypt, the period of Roman rule caused a political and religious changes gradually in the Nile Valley, effectively marking the end of the development of an independent Egyptian civilization.
Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on a good balance of control between human and natural resources, characterized primarily by

    
regular irrigation of the Nile Valley;
    
mineral exploitation of the valley and surrounding desert regions;
    
early development of independent writing system and literature;
    
organization of collective projects;
    
trade with eastern Africa and central and eastern Mediterranean; and
    
military activity that shows a strong characteristic of royal hegemony and cultural domination of neighboring regions on several different periods.
Management activities are carried out by the social elite, political, economic and social consensus through a complicated system based on religious belief under the figure of the demigod rulers (semi-divine), which is usually a man, through a succession of ruling dynasties, known by the wider world as a polytheistic faith.
On a map of Ancient Egypt. The southern part of Egypt they call the new Egypt. Northern parts of Egypt they call the old Egypt. In Egypt there are the new kings of the valley, where the graves Tuthankhamen. In Egypt a long time, there Giza, where the largest pyramid.
In Egypt, of course there is the God and Goddess. One of them was the god Osiris, the god of death. Other deities Isis, Tawaret, Thoth, Sebek, Nut, Amun-Ra, and much more! Did you know that the Ancient Egyptians worshiped around 2000 gods and goddesses.

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