Egyptian Civilization

Modern Day Location

• Egypt

Inca CivilizationExpansion

Colonizers Timeline• 1539: The reunification of Egypt and the expulsion of the Hyksos begins the New Kingdom, a period when Egypt became a leading power in the Middle East

• 1336-1327: Tutankhamen reigns• 728: Egypt is conquered by Nubian kings• 656: Egypt is occupied by the Assyrians• 639: The Egyptians expel the Assyrians and begin a period of revival

• 525: Egypt is conquered by the Persians• 332: Egypt is conquered by Alexander the Great

• 305: Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals, founds a Greek-speaking dynasty

Chinese Inca Civilization Culture

Writings and Literature

WRITING AND LITERATURE

A hieroglyph can represent a word, a sound, or a silent determinative; and the same symbol can serve different purposes in different contexts.

Egyptian hieroglyphic writing is composed of hundreds of symbols, which could be read in rows or columns, and in either direction (though in the majority of cases, written from right to left).

Art• Funerary art - art

designed for the tomb.• There bodies were

accompanied in their graves by everyday and luxury goods – including art objects - to help them enjoy their new life.

ReligionPolytheism They worshipped around 2200 gods and goddesses. They attached divinity in creatures and worshipped them. Their crocodile god was famous as ‘Sibek’. The cat god was called ‘Pashat’ and jackle god was named as ‘Anubis’.

Ancient EgyptContributions

Contributions• Science: Calendar

• Mathematics• pen, ink and inkpot

• Medicine