The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

Egyptians began to settle along the banks of the Nile River, Starting as far north as to the city of Alexandria all the way down south to Aswan. They developed into a well-structured society as Far East to the Red Sea and west to Dakhia, Oasis among many (Figure 1.). The Nile River reached far lending a hand in creating a well-known civilization that consisted of building pyramids and producing crops for their pharaoh. Evolving from hunters and gatherers into agriculturalists throughout history, Egypt has claimed to be one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of ancient times. One could wonder if, what led to the collapse of this great society resulted from the Egyptians interaction with the environment by overusing natural resources, seasonal flooding of the Nile River can play a role, or even worse feuding wars of rulers that see value in the great Egypt soil that are continuing well into the present day?

Figure 1

Dating back to the period of 300 A.D. the Roman Empire ruled, and then about two hundred years later Egypt was split into half until 640 A.D., the invasion of the Arab army. Arab reinforcements and the Byzantine armies met on the plains of Heliopolis. As a result, the Byzantine army fled and the Egyptians put up no resistance to the conquering Islam army. In the late 600's A.D., Egyptians converted from Christianity to Islam over the years their religion became diverse. Some stayed Jewish and others remained Christians, but since 700 A.D., Egyptians remained to worship the Islamic faith. Egypt's religion was one of many gods (polytheistic) with about 700 different gods and goddesses. Egyptians performed mummification is to preserve the body to allow the "spirit" to dwell in the afterlife. ...

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...e fate and collapse due to the overuse of resources and not allowing Earth to replenish.

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