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What is the oldest country in the world?
Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world and the earliest kingdom in the world. They built the world-famous pyramids and the Valley of the Kings. A unified slave country was established in 3200 BC. The first 525 years belonged to the Persian Empire, and the first 30 years were ruled by Rome.

It was invaded by Arabia in 640 AD, and 15 17 became the province of the Ottoman Empire. 1798- 180 1 was ruled by France and 1882 became a British colony. 1922 gained independence.

Nasser overthrew the Farouk dynasty in 1952 and established the Republic of Egypt in 1953. 1956 announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal. 1958 formed the United Arab Republic with Syria, and 197 1 year was renamed.

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Ancient Egyptian civilization was formed 365,438+050 years ago. Since King Narmer unified Egypt, he has experienced the rule of 3 1 dynasty in seven periods: the early dynasty, the ancient kingdom, the first middle period, the middle kingdom, the second middle period, the new kingdom and the late Egypt.

Among them, ancient Egypt reached its peak in the18th dynasty (before15th century). Upper Egypt in the southern Nile valley is now from Sudan to Ethiopia, while Lower Egypt in the northern delta region, except for part of Egypt and Libya, has its eastern border crossing the Sinai Peninsula to the Canaan Plain.

Ancient Egypt has its own hieroglyphic system, perfect political system and polytheistic religious system, and its ruler is called Pharaoh, so it is also called Pharaoh era or Pharaoh Egypt.

The land of ancient Egypt is closely distributed in the narrow strip around the Nile. The ancient Egyptians achieved great success in agricultural production by controlling and controlling the annual flood of the Nile.

During the ancient Egyptian civilization of more than 3000 years, they built huge pyramids, temples and obelisks, and established the most advanced medical system in the world at that time.

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