Слайд 2How was the country developed
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Слайд 3Monarchy
In 1953 the monarchy was formally abolished and the Republic of Egypt was established. The legal
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status of Sudan was only resolved in 1954, when Egypt and Britain agreed that it should be granted independence in 1956.
Слайд 4Republic
Modern Egypt dates back to 1922, when it gained independence from the
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British Empire as a monarchy. Following the 1952 revolution, Egypt declared itself a republic, and in 1958 it merged with Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which dissolved in 1961.
Слайд 5Features
The country has six main physical regions: the Nile Valley, the Nile
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Delta, the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert and the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian men and women wore makeup. ...
They used moldy bread to help with infections.
They were one of the first civilizations to invent writing. ...
Слайд 8Types
Egypt is largely dominated by one ethnic group, the Egyptians. But there are also
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two smaller groups, the Bedouins and the Berbers. Let's look at all three of these cultures now.
Afrocentric: the ancient Egyptians were black Africans, displaced by later movements of peoples, for example the Macedonian, Roman and Arab conquests. Eurocentric: the ancient Egyptians are ancestral to modern Europe.
Слайд 9The English name "Egypt" is derived from the Ancient Greek "Aígyptos" ("Αἴγυπτος"), via Middle French "Egypte"
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and Latin "Aegyptus". It is reflected in early Greek Linear B tablets as "a-ku-pi-ti-yo". The adjective "aigýpti-"/"aigýptios" was borrowed into Coptic as "gyptios", and from there into Arabic as "qubṭī", back formed into "قبط" ("qubṭ"), whence English "Copt". The Greek forms were borrowed from Late Egyptian (Amarna) Hikuptah or "Memphis", a corruption of the earlier Egyptian name