... choice for a bureaucratic organization. Egyptian Historians divide Egyptian history into thirty - one dynasties, regrouped into four periods of political centralization: pre- and early dynastic Egypt (3150-2770 BC), the Old Kingdom (2270-2200 BC), the Middle Kingdom (2050-1786 BC), and the New Kingdom (1560-1087 BC). ... by the Nile and lived mainly by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants. They kept a small amount of livestock and grew a small number of crops. The main crops that were grown in those days were flax, barley, and a primitive kind of wheat called Emmer. They brought ...

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... civilization formed along the Nile river and the earliest traces of human life in that region are from the Paleolithic Age, Old Stone Age, about 300,000 B.C., at the very edges of the Nile Valley"(National Geographic). Beyond, on both sides of the river the land was and still is desert. At ... grew food by the Nile and lived mainly by hunting for meat, fishing, and gathering wild plants. They kept a small number of cattle, sheep, or goats, and grew a few crops. Their crops were flax, barley, and a primitive kind of wheat called emmer. They got the sheep and goats from the middle east .....

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