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Ancient cities in the Middle East show archaeological evidence of having had fortified city walls.
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These thinkers blended Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity, bringing the thought of Ancient Greece into the Middle Ages.
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An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2040 – 1650 BCE ): " Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.
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The collection, among the world's largest, overviews Egyptian life spanning Ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, Coptic art, and the Roman, Ptolemaic, and Byzantine periods.
Just as cars had replaced the horse, so modernist design should reject the old styles and structures inherited from Ancient Greece or from the Middle Ages.
This includes the ancient and medieval kingdoms and empires of the Middle East and Near East, ancient Iran, ancient Egypt, ancient Nubia, and Anatolia ( Turkey ), Ancient Nok, Carthage, the Greeks and Romans of ancient Europe, medieval Europe, ancient and medieval China, ancient and medieval India, ancient and medieval Japan, amongst others.
He was comparing his own period to the Ancient or Classical world, seeing his time as a time of rebirth after a dark intermediate period, the Middle Ages.
The idea that the Middle Ages was a " middle " phase between two other large scale periodizing concepts, Ancient and Modern, still persists.
Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt.
* c. 2055 BC: Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt ( other date is 2040 BC ).
* c. 8000 BC — Middle East — Ancient flint tools from north and central Arabia belong to hunter-gatherer societies
* 1640 BC — The Middle Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt and the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt starts.
* c. 1674 BC — End of Middle Kingdom in Ancient Egypt.
* c. 1650 BC — Middle Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt ( other date is 1674 BC ).
Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt, was a flourishing city in the Ancient era, but declined during the Middle Ages.
Hedgehogs were eaten in Ancient Egypt and some recipes of the Late Middle Ages call for hedgehog meat.
* Ferdinand Lot, End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages ( Harper Torchbooks Printing, New York, 1961.
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Map of the Ancient Near East during the Amarna Period, showing the great powers of the day: Egypt ( green ), Hittite empire | Hatti ( yellow ), the Kassites | Kassite kingdom of Babylon ( purple ), Middle Assyrian Empire ( grey ), and Mitanni ( red ).
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