The romance of Egypt is
pyramids, hieroglyphs, the Nile River, and Cleopatra.
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August 20, 2015, Egypt
was attacked by the Islamic State again. The attacks are in retaliation to the
latest laws put into place regarding terrorism. (BBC, Aug. 20, 2015). These
attacks have been happening more frequently throughout Egypt over the past few
years as yet another battle for power continues in Egypt. The constant changing
government of this country has been religious and economical. The majority of the changes surround the use
of religion to take over Egypt while politically wanting the entrance into the
rest of Africa and a short cut to the India.
In the beginning, well
before 3000 B.C. by some estimations, Egypt was the first established culture
due to the Nile River. Here the people
were able to have fresh water for crops and survival. However, with the rise and fall of the Nile,
many of the people were nomadic versus pastoral. From the beginning and to today, the Nile
River plays an integral part in Egyptian economic development. The push by most countries that take over
Egypt is to irrigate the Sahara for more agriculture and to help with the over
population of the urban areas of Egypt.
Scientists believe they
have found that man migrated out of Egypt and Ethiopia into Europe. (El-Awady,
June 18, 2015). The belief is man started in Africa and moved into the European
countries over the centuries.
Egypt is the English word
used for Hikuptah. Hikuptah means Temple
of the Soul of Ptah. The god Ptah, the
first Pharaoh, shows the importance the people of Egypt put on religion and
their gods. They believed that the Pharaohs were gods. At the traded with the
Mediterranean, they began to include their gods into their beliefs. These
beliefs would be the reason Cambyses II was able to conquer Egypt and the way
many of the countries conquered Egypt. Cambyses used their god beliefs of the animals by parading the animals first in battle.
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Rome rule put the
taxation on the people that was great and when the Muslims invaded, even the
Coptic Church welcomed the change.
Muslim rule was not much different from the Egyptian way of life. Whoever held power was also the religious
leader of the country. Therefore, Islam
was a political religion and fit right into the Egyptian way of life. The reign
of Islam only lasted until the Ottoman Empire invaded in the 1500s. Since the Ottoman Empire was already Muslim,
the religious view did not change.
However, the difference in the Ottoman Empire and Muslim rule was that
the Ottoman’s incorporated their religion into Egypt and did not force their
religion on the people. Napoleon invaded
Egypt from France. After World War I,
the Ottoman Empire was replaced by the British.
The British did not so much get involved in the religion of Egypt as it
did in the economics of Egypt. The Suez
Canal is the major event during the British rule. It was a deal that the French and the British
for some time; however, the British completed it. It was a canal to help with trade between the
Mediterranean and the Red Sea. The canal
would open up further trade for Egypt. After World War II, Egypt was declared
independent from Britain. The Suez Canal
remains one of the biggest shipping lanes in the world.

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