History of Egypt Vol. 1 : From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest

by Breasted, James Henry

• ISBN13: 9781931313537
• ISBN10: 1931313539
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Land	p. 3
Preliminary Survey, Chronology and Documentary Sources	p. 13
Earliest Egypt	p. 25
The Old Kingdom
Early Religion	p. 53
The Old Kingdom: Government and Society, Industry and Art	p. 74
The Pyramid Builders	p. 111
The Sixth Dynasty: The Decline of the Old Kingdom	p. 131
The Middle Kingdom: The Feudal Age
The Decline of the North and the Rise of Thebes	p. 147
The Middle Kingdom, the Feudal Age: State, Society and Religion	p. 157
The Twelfth Dynasty	p. 177
The Hyksos: the Rise of the Empire
The Fall of the Middle Kingdom: the Hyksos	p. 211
The Expulsion of the Hyksos and the Triumph of Thebes	p. 223
The Empire: First Period
The New State: Society and Religion	p. 233
The Consolidation of the Kingdom: the Rise of the Empire	p. 253
The Feud of the Thutmosids and the Reign of Hatshepsut	p. 266
The Consolidation of the Empire: Thutmose III	p. 284
The Empire	p. 322
The Religious Revolution of Ikhnaton	p. 355
The Fall of Ikhnaton and the Dissolution of the Empire	p. 379
The Empire: Second Period
The Triumph of Amon and the Reorganization of the Empire	p. 399
The Wars of Ramses II	p. 423
The Empire of Ramses II	p. 442
The Final Decline of the Empire: Merneptah and Ramses III	p. 464
The Decadence
The Fall of the Empire	p. 505
Priests and Mercenaries: the Supremacy of the Libyans	p. 522
The Ethiopian Supremacy and the Triumph of Assyria	p. 537
The Restoration and the End
The Restoration	p. 565
The Final Struggles: Babylon and Persia	p. 582
Chronological Table of Kings	p. 597
Index	p. 603
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