brought death and destruction like that of Mesopotamia. The Egyptians never feared the Nile River like the Mesopotamians feared the Tigris Rivers. Egyptians thought that the Nile River was a supreme fertilizer because it brought floods, which afterwards the land was covered in fertile mud. This made the land become more abundant in crops. Egypt was eventually self-sufficient. Individual bands of settlers moved into the Nile Valley and created communities. The Egyptians had plenty of stones in which the Mesopotamians lacked. Egypt did lack some raw material, which was available from other counties like Sinai and Lebanon. Egypt received cooper and timer from these countries. The Egyptians enjoyed centuries of tranquility and peace in which they used to develop peaceful development of their civilization. This was totally opposite of Mesopotamia. Egyptian culture was fertilized by some foreign influences without changing it in a fundamental way. Ancient Egypt was a theocracy. It gave rise to political unification under a king called Pharaoh. Unification of Egypt was in 3100-2660 B.C. The Egyptian kinship can be found in Nubia, which is the south of Egypt. It has been noted that the Egyptians and the Nubians enjoyed long and peaceful relations and also learned from each other. They Egyptians divided their city into dynasties. The Old Kingdom was known for prosperity, evolution of religious beliefs, and artistic flowering. Egyptians developed complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about the afterlife. The beliefs were rooted in the environment. The focal point of religious and political life was the Pharaoh in the Old Kingdom. He commanded wealth, resources, and people of all Egypt. The Egyptians considered Pharaoh to be a falcon-god Horus in human quality. The Pharaoh lived in a lavish home, which was considered a palace. During the First Intermediate Period after the Old Kingdom, civil war occurs. It brought fam...
