Does Anyone Know A Brief History Of Egypt?
Egypt was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia, of one of the very earliest urban and literate societies. Its culture had an important influence on both ancient Israel and ancient Greece, which in turn helped to form the civilization of the modern West. Egypt also provided Africa with its earliest civilization and may well have had considerable influence on the development of other African cultures. The special character evident in the civilization of ancient Egypt over a period of 3,000 years developed very rapidly at the time when the country first achieved unity. This great event happened in about 3100 BC, and, while some of the seeds of Egyptian culture had sprouted before this time, it is proper to regard the start of the 1st dynasty as the virtual beginning of Egypt as the country and its civilization are now generally envisaged. Perhaps the first and most important quality that typified this civilization was continuity.
