Friday, February 10, 2023
PHARAOH MENES (3100 BC)
The stage on which Menes stepped was the fertile lowlands of the Nile which we now call Egypt. Human life develops starting from a small environment, then extends to a tribe, and finally becomes a city community which was originally a stand-alone government unit. Gradually, the influence of the strong Koahuta community will develop which oversees the surrounding villages. Around 3300 BC, the cities along the Nile River had formed into Two Kingdoms, namely the Upper Kingdom (White Crown) and the Lower Kingdom (Red Crown).
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In 3300 BC, Menes, who is also the King and Red Crown united the Two Kingdoms to make the Region the First Empire in the world. Menes gets a political body that never existed before. Community groups have grown rapidly with the merging of small groups of people in the interval of thousands of years, even though when Menes created One Egypt, the Population Number of his New Empire reached a critical position (very few). Suddenly, the population of Egypt outnumbered the White Crowns and Red Crowns led by the same people. These two parts of the Empire have merged into One, a Cosmopolitan Area (Diverse Population), the First World Empire, which has a Political Agency that permits-First Time in History-Development of a Widespread Socio-Economic System.
The dates of Menes' birth and death are unknown, although they are considered to be around 3100 BC. Prior to that time, Egypt was not a single country, but consisted of two separate and independent kingdoms. One to the north in the delta of the Nile and the other to the south, in the Nile valley. (Because the Nile flows into the sea on maps of Ancient Egypt the mouth of the Nile is shown at the bottom of the page. For this reason, the Egyptians called the delta in the north "Lower Egypt", while the kingdom in the south "Upper Egypt"). In general, Lower Egypt appears to have been more advanced than its southern neighbour. But it was King Menes, the ruler of Upper Egypt who succeeded in conquering the northern kingdom and uniting the whole land.
Menes (also known as Narmer) came from Thinis, a city in southern Egypt. After ruling over the northern kingdom, he called himself "King of the North and South of Egypt," a title that subsequent Pharaohs (pharaohs) retained for thousands of years. Near the old border between the two kingdoms, Menes founded a new city-Memphis-which, because of its strategic location, became the capital of a unified Egypt. Memphis, whose ruins are in present-day Cairo, was for centuries the Preeminent City of Egypt, and for a long time was its capital.
Some additional information about Menes has been saved. He is credited with holding the reins of royalty for a long period of time-sixty-two years, according to ancient sources, though there is a possibility of exaggeration.
Despite our limited knowledge of events that took place so long ago, Menes's work seems to have had enormous significance. Prior to his Dynastic Period (i.e. before Menes), Egyptian culture was less advanced than Sumerian culture which is now located in Iraq. However, the Political Unification of Egypt seems to radiate the latent power of the Egyptian population. It is true that unification was accompanied by periods of rapid progress both culturally and socially. Governmental and social institutions developed at the start of the Dynastic Period which lasted with little change for 2000 years. The writing of hieroglyphs progressed rapidly, as did buildings and other engineering skills. Within a few centuries, Egyptian culture had equaled and even surpassed Sumerian culture in some sectors. However, for most of the 2000 years after Menes, Egypt, measured by wealth and culture, was the most advanced country in the world, at least number two. This is evidence of a long-lasting progress that few cultures can match, namely, A great Culture