LESSON 3.1 Overview
INQUIRY QUESTION How do we know about ancient Egypt, and what were its deýning features, achievements and legacies? Egypt is a relatively poor country with few natural resources. It has no oil, unlike some of its neighbours. Many tourists visit Egypt to see the pyramids and ancient tombs in the Valley of the Kings . Tourists and historians continue to wonder why Egyptians were so fascinated by death and how they built pyramids without any machinery.
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c. 5000–3100 People settle along the Nile and learn to use bronze. At least two separate states develop.
c. 3100 King Narmer unites Egypt. The Archaic period, also called Early Dynastic Period (to c. 2686 BCE), begins.
c. 2686–2181 The Old Kingdom: a long period of peace and order
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c. 2551–2528 Khufu rules.
The Great Pyramid is built.
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