Friday, February 11, 2011

Egyptian Dynasties & Kingdoms

Time periods and dynasties (families) and the more known rulers
Ancient Egypt
Early Dynastic Period Lower and Upper Egypt unified
3100 bc Dynasties: 1 & 2 Kings: Namer, Menes gods: Horus, Set, Neith

Old Kingdom
2686-2181 bc Dynasties: 3-6 Kings: Djoser, Sneferu, Khufu, Khafra

First Intermediate Period (period of disarray)
2181-2055 bc Dynasties: 7 & 8 Kings: Kheti, Asyut

Middle Kingdom
2055-1650 bc Dynasties: 9-14 King: Mentuhotep gods: Osiris

Second Intermediate Period (period of disarray)
1650-1550 bc Dynasties: 15 - 17 King: Hyksos

New Kingdom
1550-1069 bc Dynasties: 18-20 Kings: Hatshepsut, Thutmose, Amenhotep, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Seti, Ramess god: Aten-sun disc

Third Intermediate Period
1070-664 bc Dynasties: 21-25

First Persian Period
664-402 bc Kings: Artaxerxes, Darius, Xerxes

Late Period-last of the native Egyptian rulers
402-343 bc Dynasties: 26-31

Second Persian Period
343-332 bc

Greek Egypt
332-30 bc kings: Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, Cleopatra

Roman & Byzantine
30 bc-641 ad

Muslim
639 -1867 ad Kings: Fatimid, Ayyubid (Saladin-a Kurdish general), Mamluk, Ottoman (Pasha, Omar, Suleiman)

Modern
French, Muhammad Ali, Khedivate, Sultanate, Kingdom, Republic

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