General Information about Ancient Egypt

• A01. Demographic Information and Short Chronology of Egyptian History - $2

  Geography - Weather - Language - Population & People - Religions - Economy - Agriculture - Education - Names of Places.
  Pre-Dynastic Era - The Glorious Pharaonic Era - Ptolomaic Era - Roman & Byzantine Rule - Arab Rule - Turkish Rule - British Occupation - Independent Egypt.
  [10 pages, 1 map, 1 illustration.]

  
  
• A02. Kush "Nubia". The Egyptian Frontier - $1
  Many people like to portray the land south of Sunt (Aswan) as a distinctive area that was not a part of ancient Egypt. This is totally incorrect. This land, which is now called Nubia, was always the Egyptian frontier, since very ancient times. Nubia is a name that was given to Egypt's southern frontier, by the Arabs, after the 7th century CE. The legitimate name is Kush.

  The Archaic Period (3150-2686 BCE) - The Old Kingdom Period (2575-2150 BCE) - The Middle Kingdom Period (2040-1783 BCE) - The New Kingdom Period (1550-1070 BCE) - Napata and Other Kushite Holy Places.
  [5 pages, 2 maps, 1 illustration.]

  
  
• A03. Egypt History Under Islam (Since 640 CE) - $2

  Christians' Gift to Mohammed - Islam Rises Out of the Rubble - Kush Ambiguous Christian Era - Kush Repulses the Arabs. Egypt as a colony of eastern caliphates; as an autonomous state - Resisting the Arab Rule - The Fatimid Locusts Destroy Egypt - Ayyubids - Mamluks - Ottomans - Arab Republic of Egypt.
  [10 pages, 2 maps, 1 illustration.]

  
  
• A04. Hatshepsut and Tuthomosis III - $1

  In order to understand the episode of Hatshepsut and Twthomosis III, we must start with his father, Twthomosis II. Twthomosis II (c. 1510-1490 BCE) was born of a minor wife, and not the Great Royal Wife. In order to inherit the throne, he married his half-sister, Hatshepsut, the heiress daughter of his father and Queen Ahmose (the Great Royal Wife).
  [2 pages.]

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