The Rise And Fall Of Ancient Egypt Chapter 1 Summary

The chapter I choose from the book The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt is chapter 1. The name of the chapter is In The Beginning. The first section is talking about the First King Of Egypt. It opens up talking about the Museum in Cairo which has one of the most important stones in Egypt 's history. It is called the Namar Palette and it marks the very begging of Ancient Egypt 's civilization. They struggled to get through tough layers of clay, but when they discovered the Palette they saw hieroglyphics that spelled out “Nar" “mer” which gives us proof the Narmer is no just an early king, but the first ruler to unit Egypt and he came to power around 2950 marking the first dynasty. The Desert Blooms is the second section of the chapter and it starts off by saying that Egyptians achieved great mastery of stone carving. They say this because most of the

This also led to another problem as these grew bigger each kingdom wanted to more power which led to a war that would eliminate two of the three. With the final outcome of the three kingdoms, the one who survived was the ruler Tjeni. Tjeni ruled in 2950 BC and he also knows as the Narmer as you previously saw in the summary already. The last two sections in the chapter talks about the Gift of the Nile and The Two Lands run together. The Nile River is what made the Ancient Egyptians so great. The river not only molds a physical landscape, but it does it in a way which Egyptians see their selves in the world. Since the Egyptians see this as something as a phenomenon this is where creation stories come into play. The most ancient account of how the universe was formed, in the beginning, was nothing but a water chaos, personified as the god Nun. Another story they have is the water was a negative outcome that formed