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Geography, topography and resources of Egypt and its neighbours,

The main geographical feature of Egypt was the Nile river which was made with 3 rivers combining (the blue, White Nile and the river Atbara river) which ran from though the whole Egyptian landscape. In that time there was 3 seasons first was the flood, then the flood waters would retract and leave be hide a thick layer of silt which was perfect for growing crops and allowed papyrus trees to grow giving them paper . The last season was the drought at which time the crops would be harvested and stored the government would collect taxes at this time. The Nile is the life of Egypt. The Nile also made Egypt into two different regions which they called the black land ( the colour left be hide by the layer of silt) and red land ( colour of the dessert and the mountains surrounding ). There was an extreme amount of building materials like limestone and lacked only a few valuable materials like timber and oil which had to be imported from rethink, the Mediterranean, Syria-Palestine Nubia. Nubia in particular is gave the access to incense, animal skins and ostrich feathers.

Historical overview of the early Eighteenth Dynasty
In the 18th Dynasty is unclear to who was on the throne at the beginning some believe that king Ahmose was but could have been Seqenenre Tao II son. 1565 B.C Ahmose defeated the Hyksos who held Lower Egypt and reunited the 2 lands and his son Amenhotep I took back Nubia. Thutmose I in 1524 B.C was a pharaoh who was also father of Hatshepsut. He was a great warrior pharaoh extending Egypt’s borders in Nubia andfurthered Egypt’s influence around the Euphrates River.

Overview of the social, political, military and economic structures of the early NewKingdom period

The social structure of Ancient Egypt was made of the highest class the pharaoh and the royal family followed by the nobles and chief government officials. Middle class was scribes,

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