Egyptian civilization history

Egyptian Civilization History
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Ancient Egypt was a civilization that arose among settlements along the banks of the Nile River. It had three periods of splendor in the Old Middle and the New Kingdom. The Egyptian civilization developed for more than 3000 years and started when there was a unification of several cities in the Nile Valley. However, this was disrupted by the Roman Empire conquering Ptolemaic Egypt and absorbing it as a state. The Roman Period (30 BC-AD 395) was the last Period in ancient Egyptian civilization where the Roman rule was imposed in Egypt (Shaw, 2003). In the predynastic period, there were no pharaohs, but the emergence of pharaohs occurred at a time when Egypt was unified.
The Nile river was and is still essential to the Egyptians as this a place with a constant source of water and agriculture. Annual floods facilitated irrigation, and agriculture became the primary source of wealth in the region. They also kept domestic animals for religious use, human consumption, or agricultural work. The location of suitable building sites near the Nile Valley also made the area one of the most heavily populated. In the Roman Period (30 BC-AD 395), the last phase of Egyptian civilization after the Late Period (664-332 BC) and the Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC), agricultural production in Nile Valley and Delta increased, and Rome got a large stare of grains from the region (Shaw, 2003).
During the reign of various pharaohs, architecture and Art developed, and religious architecture was mainly the religious tombs and temples. Ancient Egyptian architecture is renowned for the pyramids, but there were various houses, cities, bri...