before 10,000 BC | Paleolithic |
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9000-7200 BC | Epipalaeolithic (Tarifian ; Qarunian- Fayum B - 6000-5000 BC) | Indigenous African tribal groupings | 6000 years | Fayum-knives
and scrapers are common, no pottery, lived from fishing, hunting and food gathering; Tarifan [Thebes area] -scrapers, blades,
ceramics |
7500-6000 BC | Nabta Playa | Indigenous African tribal groupings | 1500 years | grinding
stones, primary meat: hare and gazelle, few cattle bones, ceramics, stone industry, grinding stones, cereal grains, hare and
gazelle, few cattle bones |
6200-5200
BC | Fayum Neolithic(Fayum
A) | Indigenous African
tribal groupings |
| earliest evidence for farming in Kmt, grain silos, animal bones
- including domestic animals, hunting and fishing |
4800-4500 BC | Merimde | Indigenous African tribal groupings |
| [west Delta] small huts of wattle and reed with round or elliptical ground plan, dead buried within
the settlement in a contracted position in oval pits without grave goods |
| El
Omari | Indigenous African
tribal groupings |
| Pottery; stone tools- small flakes, axes, & sickles; domesticated
cereal, wheat, barley; flax for textile |
| Badarian/ Maadi | Indigenous African tribal groupings |
| first farming culture
in Upper Kmt, used metal, produced the first glazed objects |
| Kmt in the
Naqada Period | Black
African Nevada I |
| Similar to Badarian |
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| Black
African Naqada II | 300 years | Domesticated sheep, goat, cattle, development in techniques-metalworking,
stone carving, precise flint knives |
4236-3900
BC | Kmt Calendar/Civilization in place | Black African Naqada III | 400 years | Social
stratification, writing, elaborate burials; calendar developed |
3800-3186 BC | Kmt
in the Early Dynastic | Black African
Early Dynastic | 700 years | progress in almost all technologies visible (metal working, faience); large-scale
monumental architecture; Writing & art standardized; more complex administration; university |
2986-2581 BC | Kmt in the Old Kingdom | Black African Old Kingdom | 500
years | the earliest pyramidal structure, first
architectural complex made entirely in dressed stone blocks; Imhotep |
2481-2025 BC | Kmt
in the First Intermediate Period | Black
African First Intermediate Period | 450 years | separated into several political units; different local styles
developed |
2025-1700 BC | Kmt in the Middle Kingdom | Black African Middle Kingdom | 325 years | Unification
of Kmt (Mentuhotep), Temples, texts-many copied from old kingdom texts, foreign relations |
1700-1550 BC | Kmt in the Second Intermediate Period | Black African Second Intermediate Period; massive racial/ethnic intermixing | 150 years | Political
rupture, Hyksos invade & control lower Kmt, Theban rulers gain strength in upper |
1550-1069 BC | Kmt in the New Kingdom | Black African New Kingdom | 500
years | Nubia incorporated into Kmt; Thutmose
III, Hatshepsut, Rameses II; ran out Hittites; period of Black nationalism and deliberate national imperialism. |
1069-664 BC | Kmt in the Third Intermediate Period
| Massive demographic invasion of semites from Arabia, Assyria, and Persia. Massive intermixing
and the end of Black African rule in the Third Intermediate Period | 400 years | Invasion
after invasion |
WHITE/ARAB
OCCUPATION PERIOD |
664-525
BC | Kmt in the Late Semitic
Invasion Period | Late Period | 139 years | SEMITE/ARAB OCCUPATION PERIOD |
525-404 BC | Kmt
in the first Persian Invasion Period | First Persian
Period | 121 years | SEMITE/ARAB OCCUPATION PERIOD |
404-343 BC | Late Dynastic Period in Kmt | Late Dynastic Period | 61
years | SEMITE/ARAB OCCUPATION PERIOD |
343-332 BC | Kmt in the second Persian Invasion Period | Second Persian Period | 11
years | SEMITE/WHITE OCCUPATION PERIOD |
332-305 BC |
| Macedonian
Period | 27 years | WHITE/SEMITE OCCUPATION PERIOD |
323-30 BC | European Greek Ptolemaic Invasion Period | Ptolemaic Period | 293
years | WHITE OCCUPATION PERIOD |
30 BC - 640 AD | Kmt in the European Roman Invasion Period | Roman/Byzantine Period | 670
years | WHITE OCCUPATION PERIOD |
640-1517 |
| Islamic
Period | 877 years | WHITE/ARAB OCCUPATION PERIOD |
1517-1805 |
| Ottoman
Period | 288 years | ARAB/WHITE OCCUPATION PERIOD |
1805-1919 | Kmt in the Arab Islamic Invasion Period | Khedival Period | 114 years | WHITE/ARAB OCCUPATION PERIOD |
1919-1953 |
| Monarchy | 34 years | ARAB OCCUPATION PERIOD |
1953-today |
| Republic | 56+ years | ARAB OCCUPATION PERIOD |
