World History › Section B · The first civilizations › Topic B.3
Ancient Egypt
Where the Nile's floods arrived like clockwork, a single god-king ruled a unified state of perhaps two million people — and built mountains of stone over his own grave. This topic covers Egypt's river-given stability, the pharaoh, the pyramids, and the writing and beliefs that survived him.
In this topic
- The gift of the Nile
- The pharaoh: god in the big house
- Religion of the river
- Ma'at: order out of a predictable river
- Hieroglyphs and papyrus
- Why mummies: the parts of a person
- Worked example: a pyramid as a measure of the state
- Worked example: how dark was the "dark age"?
- The Middle Kingdom: a second greatness
- Sobekneferu, the Hyksos and fragmentation
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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