Egypt has endured as a unified state
for more than 5000 years,
and archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society
has existed for much longer.
Egypt had always been, since antiquity, an important land route to the east. In 1798 the French, led by a young general named Napoleon Bonaparte, invaded Egypt and quickly conquered northern Egypt.
Napoleon Bonaparte
They wanted to control trade with the east. Napoleon brought with him a number of educated people interested in recording Egypt's past. Teams of artists drew pictures of flora, fauna and antiquities. Their efforts were published in 1801 in a classic 20 volume work called The Description of Egypt which is still a standard reference work on Egypt filled with marvelous drawings. This and other efforts would introduce Europe to the marvels of Egyptian antiquities. Grave robbers, antiquities dealers and explorers came to Egypt to search for hidden treasures. Egyptology and archaeology were born.
Egypt in the Middle east is known as - but also history proves that it has been - the solid rock on which enemies' arrows get broken. In fact Egypt has been invaded by so many foreign forces: Hyxox, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, French, British, and finally by its own corrupt government under the command of current Honsny Mubarak.
Ancient Egypt
Tools and artifacts indicate that humans lived in the Nile valley beginning about 60,000 years ago. Archaeological findings point to the emergence of a dominant political and religious culture in the Nile valley by about 3300 BC. Shortly thereafter, Menes — considered the first pharaoh — conquered the delta and the narrow strip of cultivated land along the Nile, uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
Historians divide Egyptian civilization into four epochs: the Old, Middle, and New kingdoms, and the Late Period. These eras are separated from each another by, respectively, the First, Second, and Third Intermediate periods. During these times the political divisions of Middle and Upper Egypt broke apart under the influence of weak rulers, fragmenting the central government and disrupting the administrative authority of the country.
Early Egyptians lived under an absolute ruler, the pharaoh, who was revered as a god. Only the pharaohs' responsibility to their people constrained their divine right. In later eras, pharaohs were still considered divine but ruled primarily through political and military power.
The 16th century BC marked the beginning of a period of international conquest, called the New Kingdom (1570–1070 BC). Warrior pharaohs established military posts along the upper Nile and far into Nubia and Syria, ending Egypt's political isolation. Immigrants from throughout the empire swelled Egypt's population, introducing new customs, fashions, and languages.
Persian invaders occupied Egypt in the sixth century BC until 332 BC, when invasion by the forces of Alexander the Great brought an end to Persian rule. After his death in 323 BC, Alexander's generals divided his empire. Ptolemy took Egypt and in 306 BC declared himself pharaoh, establishing Egypt's last dynasty.
Coptic Christianity
For nearly seven centuries after the death of Cleopatra, the Romans controlled Egypt. They treated Egypt as a valuable source of wealth and profit and were dependent on its supply of grain.
When Roman Emperor Constantine came to power, he converted to Christianity; in AD 313 he gave imperial sanction to the Church doctrine. The new Roman orthodoxy was somewhat at variance with the established Christianity of Egyptians, known as Coptic Christianity. Religious conflicts erupted. In the end, the Copts formally seceded and appointed their own patriarch of Alexandria.
Islamic Egypt
From AD 641–1517 Egypt was ruled by governors appointed by the caliph, leader of the Muslim community. In 1517, the Turkish sultan Selim declared Egypt a Turkish possession, part of the Ottoman Empire.
Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798 and occupied the country until 1801, marking the beginning of renewed European interest in Egypt. In 1805 Muhammad Ali, an Ottoman general of Albanian origin, seized power with the cooperation of the local population.
He established Egypt on a firm economic footing, importing Western technology and culture. Through warfare, Ali extended the Egyptian empire to the Arabian Peninsula and the Sudan.
Egypt under France and Britain
After the death of Muhammad Ali in 1849, Egypt came increasingly under European influence. British interest in Egypt stemmed from the Suez Canal as the short route to India, and as a source for cotton for English mills. British promises to evacuate Egypt diminished as Egypt and the Suez Canal became an integral part of British Mediterranean defense policy. When Turkey entered World War I on the side of Germany, Britain declared Egypt a protectorate.
After the war, Egypt erupted in violent protest over British rule. Violence continued until 1922, when Britain declared Egypt an independent monarchy under King Fuad I, reserving the right to defend Egypt and protect the Suez Canal.
By the terms of a 1936 treaty, British forces were to withdraw from Egypt, excepting the canal zone. At the start of World War II, Egypt remained neutral. The British defeated Nazi troops in the battle of El Alamein in 1942.
Modern Egypt
In 1948 Egypt and several other Arab states went to war in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent establishment of the state of Israel. Blaming the government for the campaign's lack of success, the army turned against King Faruk, Fuad's son. In 1952 a group of army officers led by General Mohammed Naguib ousted the king. Egypt was declared a republic in 1953.
Naguib relinquished power in 1954 to Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was officially elected in 1956.
Mohammad Naguib (above), and Gamal Abdul-Nasser (below)
Nasser first followed a pro-Western policy and negotiated the evacuation of British forces from Egypt in 1954, ending 72 years of British occupation. He soon became an advocate of Arab unity, and his relations with the West deteriorated.
In 1956 the United States and Britain withdrew financial support from Nasser's Aswan High Dam project. Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and sought to use its revenues to finance the dam. Angered, Britain and France, primary stockholders in the canal, joined with Israel in attacking Egypt in 1956. World pressure forced a cessation of hostilities, and a United Nations (UN) emergency force occupied the canal zone. In 1958 Egypt and Syria formed the United Arab Republic.
In 1967, after the withdrawal of UN troops, Egypt blockaded the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli ships. Israel attacked Egypt, resulting in a six-day war that left Israel in possession of the Sinai Peninsula. Nasser died suddenly in 1970 and was succeeded by Anwar al-Sadat, a longtime colleague. After the assassination of Sadat, Egypt was ruled by Hony Mubarak, A Pharaoh who has been on ruling for almost 30 years by tampering with elections.
Religions in Egypt are: Coptic Christianity which is not a follower of the Roman church as cited herein before, but has its own pope , and Islam which is a majority religion. In 1919 both Christians and Muslims were united and stood together against their one one enemy; the British. But now the situation is different and extremest from both sides are causing trouble. As a matter of fact I personally believe that the trouble Egypt is going through is more of economical and political nature; both manifesting their existence in corruption caused by the current corrupt regime. This corruption mostly manifest itself and is so transparent during elections and polls.
Egypt's Coitus Relation
The above is exactly what have become of Egypt. Living under poverty, inflation, and corruption will yield nothing but the expected fact that everybody will screw up every body.
May a picture worth a thousand words
Another military person as if Egypt has not suffered enough from the ruling military mentality
"By the star, they are being guided". WOW, he is the sun and the moon.
"Yes, we can" mirroring the American idiot and Zionist agent: Obama
No comments as I feel like throwing up.
This trimmed-mustache idiot remind me with what a renowned poet named Al-motanabbi said about Egypt:
"Is knowledge obtained by trimming your mustaches?...What a nation whose ignorance was mocked by other nations."
He represents peasants and labourers.
This guy is brave as he quoted from the Qu'ran: "Go to the Pharaoh because he has transgressed". Now he is in trouble because the title is patented only for Mubarak.
WOW!!! This guy who looks like a drug trafficker says: "No opposition, no brotherhood". The undereducated and maybe still illiterate does not know that in the absence of opposition, democracy is out the window and monopoly and control start. And then he says: "Rise in the morning, wash you face, Ibraheem (assuming this is his name) will not cheat you". Nonsensical statement empty of meaning but said just to achieve a poetic rhyming.
An idiot who wants to ride the wave with the corrupt government. He wants to belong as he might be able to also reap and feed on the blood of the nation
If you love "Hijab", then vote for her. But , oh man, if you love luxurious life, Blondies white flesh, and..oh, stop!..., then give her your phone number. You could be lucky and get..., oh man..stop!
She is so secular and liberal and her symbol is "the phone". So if you feel like having a date, or maybe discussing some politics, give her a shout.
This one says: "Coffee Shop. Novel thinking" What the hell is his message about?! Me'assil and tobacco, Shishah and Gouzah. God only knows.
The Arabic script is a "hadith/saying of the prophet of Islam). But here it is quoted as a motto by this idiot who thinks he has quoted from the Qu'ran. Thus elevating the hadith to the devine status of the Qu'ran and the human status of the Prophet to the divine status of ALLAH. What an under educated fool!
Her Symbol is "the chandlair". Well, I am hoping for more enlightment
The Arabic script says: "King-Kong, not a tassel-like member of the people assembly". So he is promissing to be a bully/king kong and in the meantime admitting that there are "khrongs/tassel-like" in the assembly. This guy, if he succeed, he will swamp Egypt with "Hashish", no doubt.
Minister of Military Production, Sayyed Mish'al is distributing money. Is this legal to do during elections. I do not think so. It is bribery.
Egypt has used the shadouf, the sakiyah, Archimedes tube (tanbour) as tools for irrigating their fields. Egyptian peasants are still using the same devices regardless of how advanced nations became in the field of irrigation, agriculture, etc.
I firmly believe if things in Egypt keep going the way they are going, the nation, no doubt in my heart, will be trapped in those ancient devices for a long time.
Shadouf
Sakiyah
.And this is not only it, but they will become nothing but a nation of...
looked after only for their milk, wool and flesh. What a pathatic end for the discendants of the second oldest civilization in the world.
Wake up, idiots.
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