The History of Ancient Egypt: The Early Dynastic Period: Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #1

By Hui Wang

"Weiliao" is a series program that tells the story of the world, it created by Wei Yi Culture and Media AB, and launched in 2020. The content touches on history, science, technology, astronomy, geography, music, and more.

 

The "The History of Ancient Egypt" is a series of books to tell the historical stories of Ancient Egypt, and the stories run through the whole of Ancient Egypt. This book "The Early Dynastic Period" is the first episode, the historical period includes from the First Dynasty to the Second Dynasty. This period is considered to be the beginning of Ancient Egyptian civilization. The content covers The Nile River, where people and gods live together, the Myth of Osiris, Narmer(Menes) as the first king makes ancient Egypt unified, the King's Successors, and more. There is more exciting content in the book is looking forward to your reading.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wei Yi Culture and Media AB
• Release date: Sep 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9789189209077

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Introduction

The The History of Ancient Egypt is a series of books to tell the historical stories of Ancient Egypt, and the stories run through the whole of Ancient Egypt. This book The Early Dynastic Period is the first episode, the historical period includes from the First Dynasty to the Second Dynasty. This period is considered to be the beginning of Ancient Egyptian civilization. The content covers The Nile River, where people and gods live together, the Myth of Osiris, Narmer(Menes) as the first king makes ancient Egypt unified, the King's Successors, and more. There is more exciting content in the book is looking forward to your reading.

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Overview

Egyptian hieroglyphs on wall

Egyptian hieroglyphs on wall

Currently, Egypt is an African country which is located in North Africa, along the Mediterranean Sea and is one of the oldest countries where civilization began. Anciently, the name Egypt was another pronunciation of the name Hwt-Ka-Ptah, which is loosely translated to mean House of the Spirit of Ptah, who was one of the most respected gods in the predynastic period of ancient Egypt. later, during the Old Kingdom, it is when they started calling the country Kemet, which meant the ‘black land’, named after the rich, dark soil along the Nile river. Later in the years, the country was known as Misr which was simply meaning country, this name has been functional until today where the Egyptians refer to their country as Misr. Egyptian civilization was in existence for thousands of years as an independent kingdom whose culture was well known to many other kingdoms all over the world due to its cultural advances, among other areas of human knowledge such as science to art, to religion and technology. Monuments that are still evident in present Egypt stand as a grandeur of Egyptian culture which is still celebrated, and it is no doubt that it was influenced by even other ancient civilizations such as Rome and Greece.

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The Early Dynastic Period, which is as well-known as The Archaic period, is a period that is conventionally considered to be the beginning of the history of the civilization of ancient Egypt. There is a belief that there were still other periods before this period, but it falls short of archeological evidence that can substantiate the claim. This period is known as the predynastic period, or in short, a period when history was yet to be recorded. This period runs from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic Age until the rise of the first dynasty. It is, therefore, the culmination of the formative ages that was put together to form ancient Egyptian culture which is believed to have begun thousands of years ago but during the prehistorical period. It is believed that it is during the dynastic period when things started shaping themselves to form a stable kingdom to what turned to be the most successful civilization. It is during this period when the divine kingship became well established as the form of ruling and it is from there the form of government and culture remained unchanged for the 3000 years that followed.

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Writing is believed to have started during this period where it started as a denotation of quantities and provenance in a substance and which was done through simple signs to a complex system that involved thousands of signs with both ideographic and phonetic details which perfectly fitted in governance, religious, political and purposes. It is during the beginning of this period that the typical Egyptian artistic canon was able to take shape in both 2 and 3-dimensional representation and it was a perfect mark to the artists in millenniums to come. The rise of urbanism is another thing that marks the beginning of The Early Dynastic Period. Most of the people who were occupying the small inhabitants in their villages started abandoning their villages so that could be able to move and interact with other large communities as well as experience life in the cities. Most of those who moved noted that they wanted a change in culture and religion.

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We can, therefore, say