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Dates: 3000 - 2600 BCE.
Fact 1:  The capital of Egypt was Memphis.
Fact 2: The nations of upper and lower Egypt became untitled under a king, later called “pharaoh”.

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Dates:  2650-2150 BCE.

Fact 1:The Old Kingdom was also called the Pyramid Age.

Fact 2:The king was powerful enough to mobilize a significant percentage of the population to move to Giza during the farming off-season and help to build a pyramid.

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Dates: 2040-1640 BCE.

Fact 1:Pyramids were smaller and there was less wealth in the hands of the rulers.

Fact 2: The middle kingdom was a great time of literature.

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Dates: 1550-1070 BCE.
Fact 1:They carved out an empire using foreign allies as “buffer states” to guard against invasion.

Fact 2: Another famous pharaoh, Akhnaton, set up a short-lived new religion worshiping a singled god called the Aten.

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Dates: 712-332 BCE.

Fact 1:The Assyrians invaded Egypt in 663.
Fact 2:Psamtik, an Egyptian king of Libyan descent, set up the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.

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Dates: 332 BCE- 642 CE.
Fact 1:The Macedonian/Greek army of Alexander the Great occupied Egypt in 332 BCE, and the young Alexander declared himself pharaoh.
Fact 2: Ptolemy gained control of Egypt, establishing a dynasty that lasted for nearly three hundred years, concluding with the tragic story of Cleopatra.