1. Class One 2012
Ancient Egyptian History: The Last Thousand Years of the
Egyptian Empire the Decline Fall 2012 and Spring 2013
Adjunct Professor Joe Boisvert

2. Long ago the Egyptian People Emerged from the
hunting and gathering groups and began the long
journey to Civilization.
They seemed to evolve fully formed into a
organized culture with a Religion and a Strong
Ritualized Burial Concept.
The Population of Egypt when from an
Approximate low of three million to a high Near
or slightly exceeding Ten Million

4. The Old Kingdom was the First Historical Period of
Egyptian History which was to last Three Thousand
Years, this first period was the time of the Pyramid
and the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt
under Pharaoh Namur

7. Akhenaton Believed in Akhenaton and
Aton the One Single God Nefertiti First in
the Majority of Written Record to
Egyptians before and Believe in One God
After believed in Amon
Re

8. King Tut From King Tut’s
Grave

9. Pharaohs Throne Changes in Egyptian Art –
Dwarfs where Scared in
Ancient Egypt

10. Ramses Death Mask

11. Decline of the Egyptian Civilization
Part of the reason for Egypt's (Kermit's)
decline was due to inevitability. All
civilizations eventually decline after
reaching a peak.
After hundreds of millenniums of
uninterrupted existence, a series of
internal problems and invasions by outside
cultures(Persian, Hyksos, Greek, Roman)
signaled the end.

13. In 954 B.C. the Libyans came in from
the western hills, and laid about them
with fury.
In 722 the Ethiopians entered from
the south, and avenged their ancient
slavery;
In 674 the Assyrians swept down
from the north and subjected priest-
ridden Egypt to tribute.