Egyptian Interaction with the Middle East

Egypt has a rich and fascinating history with the Middle East.  Although Egypt is the best known and most researched empire in the area, the others in the Middle East contributed to its grandeur.  No culture has ever began with only its own traditions and methods.  Other cultures from the area contribute to all the things that distinguish one culture from another.  Interaction between Egypt and its neighbors has added many different aspects to Egyptian culture that we study today. 

The most apparent interactions take place directly.  These interactions are those that make direct connections from one culture to another.  Trade route that intersect areas and wars involving two or more cultures are examples of direct interaction.  Indirect interaction is less apparent, but none the less, it is just as important.  Indirect interaction is the dealings that cultures have with others that don’t directly go from one popular culture to the next.  As ideas and goods are exchanged indirectly, they are modified to fit the culture that has adopted them.  Indirect interaction with Egypt’s Middle Eastern neighbors was very influential in making Ancient Egypt what it was.

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Assyrians

Phoenicians

Hittites

Minoans

Babylonians

Persians

References For Assyria:

“Ashurbanipal  -Britannica.com.” Britannica.com. (1999-2000)

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/6/0,5716,9976+1+9855,00.html   December 4, 2000.

“Ancient Lebanon.” Sam Houston State University. (1987)

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Lebanon1.html   December 4, 2000.

“Amon -Britannica.com.” Britannica.com. (1999-2000)5060.html  December 4, 2000.                                                                                                                   

“Memphis -Britannica.com.” Britannica.com. (1999-2000)

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/5/0,5716,53235+4,00.html

December 2, 2000.

“Overseas trade during the pharaonic period.” Ancient Egypt: History and Culture.

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/trade/   December 4, 2000.

“Rediscover Ancient Egypt-International Trade.” “Rediscover Ancient Egypt - Tehuti Research Foundation - T.R.F. (August 29, 1998)

http://www.egypt-tehuti.org/articles/intl-trade.html   December 4, 2000.

Suryoyo.com Forum: ANCIENT SYRIA(ARAM)...” Syriac Aramean WebForum (September 8, 2000)

http://us.parsimony.net/forum28457/messages/1071.htm   December 4, 2000.

“Taharqa - Britannica.com.” Britannica.com. (1999-2000)

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/5/0,5716,72765+1+70922,00.html   December 4, 2000.

“The Qenbet Qedet: Trade in Ancient Egypt.” Nepheriti’s Homepage (The Qenbet Qedet).

http://pages.ancientsites.com/~Nepheriti_Hatshepsut/QQ/August2000/trade.htm  December 4, 2000.

“25th Dynasty Kings” Tour Egypt. (1996)

http://touregypt.net/25dyn02.htm   December 4, 2000.

 

Pictures:

Map of Assyrian Empire

http://www.nineveh.com/whoarewe.htm

Map of Trading Routes

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/trade/

References for Babylon:

Age of God-Kings: Time Frame 3000-1500 BC. (Time-Life, 1987).
Boardman, John and others, eds. The Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford, 1986).
Cotterell, Arthur, ed. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations (Penguin, 1989).
Howe, Helen and Howe, R.T. The Ancient World (Longman, 1988).
Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. and Sabloff, J.A. Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica (Waveland, 1987).

References for Persia:

 Egyptian History

http://proxy.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/history21-31.htm

Late Period

http://home.swipnet.se/`w-63448/egyphist2.htm

Egypt under the Persians

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/academic/cult_sci/anthro/egypt/persian_period.html

 EAWC Chronology: Egypt

http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/egpage.htm

 References for the Hitties:

Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites, 1998 Oxford University Press Inc., New York

Montparnasse Multimedia, Egypt- Voyage to the Land of the Pharaohs, 2000

2001 Encarta Deluxe Encyclopedia, Hittites, Microsoft

 Written by:  (in alphabetical order)

Jeff Hertaus

Jared Krebsbach

Matt Lutgen

Kozue Takahashi

Joe Williams

 Alex Boyce


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