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  • Essay / The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt Chapter 1 Summary

    This also led to another problem as these grew, each kingdom wanted more power which led to a war which would eliminate two of the three. With the final result of the three kingdoms, the one who survived was the ruler Tjeni. Tjeni ruled in 2950 BC and he is also known as Narmer, as you already saw in the summary. The last two sections of the chapter talk about the Gift of the Nile and the Two Lands working together. The Nile is what made the ancient Egyptians so great. The river not only shapes a physical landscape, but it does so in a way that Egyptians see themselves in the world. Since the Egyptians saw this as a phenomenon, this is where the creation stories come in. The oldest account of the formation of the universe was at first just aquatic chaos, personified by the god Nun . Another story is that water was a negative result that formed