The Three Seasons of the Nile, including its' regular flooding every year, coupled with the isolation of the river valley at the edge of the Sahara Desert and the Red Sea, allowed Egypt to develop a technologically advanced, economically sound, and socially stable civilization.
Because Egyptians believed that their rulers were gods, dynasties formed as the Pharaohs' power was typically passed down from generation to generation.
The Pharaohs only represented one of the many gods in the Egyptians' polytheistic belief system.
The Mediterranean Sea links Northern Africa, Southern Europe, Western Asia, and the Middle East.
Ancient Egypt was an advanced society with a strong, theocratic dynastic system.
The Nile River flows over several cataracts (large waterfalls) that prevent shipping from the Ethiopian highlands to the Nile Delta.
The largest concentration of Egyptian settled the Nile delta where silt carried by the Nile formed islands of rich, fertile soil.
The Egyptian's written language consisted of thousands of symbols called Hieroglyphs. They can still be found painted on the walls of buildings and their interior walls of the pyramids but were often used to record religious text and records on a paper-like material made from papyrus. Even so, it wasn't until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone that historians could translate this complex language.
The Egyptians' preserved their dead as mummies based on their belief that they would need their bodies in the afterlife.