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e. The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (also known as The Period of Reunification) is the period in the history of ancient Egypt following a period of political division known as the First Intermediate Period. The Middle Kingdom lasted from approximately 2040 to 1782 BC, stretching from the reunification of Egypt under the reign of Mentuhotep II in the ...
Oct 4, 2016 · The First Intermediate Period & the Rise of Thebes. After the collapse of the Old Kingdom following the 6th Dynasty, there was no strong central government in Egypt. This came about, in part, because of the great works commissioned by the kings of the 4th Dynasty who built the pyramids at Giza.
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Monumentality was a device used by Middle Kingdom kings to stress their dominion over the entire country. Contrasting with monumentality in Middle Kingdom art is a penchant for delicate, intimate detail (26.7.1275a–j). In some cases, Middle Kingdom artists lavished extraordinary attention and labor on parts of objects that were not easily ...
Sep 27, 2020 · The Middle Kingdom, also known as the Period of Reunification, is a period in the history of Ancient Egypt stretching from the end of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty, roughly between 2000-1700 BCE. There were two phases: the end of the Eleventh Dynasty, which ruled from Thebes, and the Twelfth Dynasty onwards, which was ...
The Second Intermediate period. The increasing competition for power in Egypt and Nubia crystallized in the formation of two new dynasties: the 15th, called the Hyksos ( c. 1630– c. 1523 bce ), with its capital at Avaris (Tell el-Dabʿa) in the delta, and the 17th ( c. 1630–1540 bce ), ruling from Thebes.
Oleg Svyatoslavich ( Russian: Олег Святославич; c. 1052 – 1 August 1115) was a prince from Kievan Rus' whose equivocal adventures ignited political unrest in the country at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries. He reigned as Prince of Chernigov from 1094 to 1097, and as Prince of Novgorod-Seversk from 1097 to 1115.
Mar 14, 2018 · Ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom Period. Running from the end of the first intermediate period to the start of the second, the Middle Kingdom lasted from about 2055-1650 B.C. It was composed of part of the 11th Dynasty, the 12th Dynasty, and current scholars add the first half of the 13th Dynasty.
