Egyptian Empire Modern Egypt is situated in northeast of Africa, bordered to north by Mediterranean Sea and to east by the Palestinian controlled Gaza Strip and Red Sea. More than 3,500 years ago, Rome was not more than a wet marsh and Acropolis was an empty rock. However Egypt was on brink of its most wonderful age, that of the New Kingdom. There was an explosion of originality, wealth as well as power in Egypt, which will make it the envy of the world. Following the defeat of Hyksos invaders, consecutive Pharaohs expanded as well as maintained their Egyptian Empire through force and diplomacy. In process, they succeeded in gaining the Egyptian empire huge amounts of gold, power as well as respect. Behind the power of Egyptian empire put a vast affluence of natural resources. The chief among them was the river Nile. The Nile was a motorway of the ancient world, whose flood plains as well provided enormous expanses of lush farming ground that set aside Egyptian independent and generally famine-free. Along banks of river Nile, the modest papyrus plant was also used to create the bureaucratic competence and artistic sophistication before unknown to the mankind. The civilization started around 3150 BC with political amalgamation of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and increased over next three millennia. The empire’s history took place in a series of steady periods, identified as kingdoms, interspersed by periods of virtual unsteadiness recognized as Intermediate Periods. Following the end of very last kingdom, recognized as New Kingdom, the civilization of the ancient Egypt came into the period of slow, stable decline, at the end of which time Egypt, was conquered by the sequence of foreign invasions. The rule of pharaohs formally ended at 31 BC when early Roman Empire occupied Egypt. Civilization of ancient Egypt flourished from the adaptation to conditions of Nile River and successful irrigation of the fertile valley created surplus crops that fueled social expansion and civilization. With wealth to spare, the administration sponsored the mineral exploitation of valley and nearby desert regions, early development of the independent lettering system, organization of collective creation and agricultural plans, trade with nearby regions, and the military that defeated the foreign enemies and declared Egyptian dominance. Inspiring and organizing these actions was a bureaucracy of influential scribes, spiritual leaders, as well as administrators under control of the divine pharaoh who guaranteed cooperation and unity of Egyptian people through the elaborate system of spiritual beliefs. |
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