Traces of human activity in the Nile Valley date back to ancient times. A relatively coherent picture of this society gave us the monuments dated 5 millennia B.C. They showing us the primitive-communal nature of society, based on primitive agriculture and animal husbandry, fishing and hunting have also played a big role. Soil, formed from alluvial sediments, provided with food, in spite of the primitiveness of tools to a large number of people. In some farming communities began to emerge, based on artificial irrigation, and used slave labor, even a few initially. The development of income inequality within the community led to a rudimentary form of state power as the apparatus of oppression, created for the benefit of the emerging class of slaveholders. Constant civil war over the lands, canals and slaves ended in the middle of 4 Millennium with formation of two large public entities - the north and south. Their union, achieved victory of the South over the North (about 3200 BC.) became the formation of a unified Egyptian state.
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The Art of Ancient Egypt was a nation creation that were one of the oldest cultures of mankind, and for several millenniums, has played a main role in the history of the Mediterranean, eastern Africa and Asia. Their art was the most advanced and most perfect of the arts of different peoples of the Ancient East. Egyptian has created the world’s first monumental stone architecture, it is remarkable truthful realistic sculptural portrait, magnificent art handicraft products. Egyptian art was new and big step forward since prehistoric art. Among its many accomplishments the main was image of a person with much more realistic degree of specificity than it was in the art of the previous historical phases. Egyptian art was the first that portrayed man in relation to other people. It is generally agreed that Egyptians have invented methods of visual story, build on a strictly-planned action. Finally, Egyptian art has opened up and approved the interest in individuality, not once, during its long history, creating images full of deep significance.
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