On The Reasons Of The Decline And Fall Of Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Ancient Egypt, with three thousand years glorious civilization, has built the most glorious Pharaoh era in the human history. In the long historic evaluation, ancient Egypt has formed its own peculiar style of political, economic, military and cultural system; the numerous peculiarities not only brought ancient Egypt the prosperity and powerful, but also buried the potential of its decline and fall.As "the gift of the Nile", the ancient Egyptians were closely related to the natural environment of the northeast corner. In a relatively isolated space, the ancient Egyptians enjoyed the Nile’s stable and rich life nutrition, maintained the development of productivity by using the most particular slave system and then formed the distinctive mode of economic production. Such a leisurely living environment left the other nations behind, the excess of comfort made them gradually lose their sense of crisis and the production capacity they should possess, eventually led to the origin of the backward.In such a large unified nation, the Pharaohs established a top-down integrated theocratic despotism system:it had Prime Minister Vizier as auxiliary minister in central and supported by state power in local. This kind of relatively stable political pattern used to bring the long-term stability and prosperity to ancient Egypt, however, along with the constant expand of "monarchial power" and "state right", the kingship was severely weakened. More lethal is the rising of theocracy, give the kingship a heavy blow. The priest group in theocratic system monopolized national culture for a long time, making the development of civilization difficult to continue. Ultimately, the prosperity of the ancient Egyptian civilization, symbolized by the powerful monarchy, has declined with the ups and downs of the kingship then finally extinct.The religion of ancient Egypt is the entire society’s moral support; in the enormous polytheistic systems, the influences of "Maat" and "View of Afterlife" were the most profound and lasting, the life of the ancient Egyptians was penetrated by the theme of "God", finally the ancient Egyptians formed their own national characteristics. Followed by the need of kingship development and the frequency of the war, religion was given a variety of connotations in order to control people’s spiritual world. In such way, after the long-term development process of religion, the ethnic characteristics of ancient Egyptians gradually evolved from the initial open-minded, self-confidence, philanthropic-minded to the obedient, humble and silence. The initiative spirit which could promote a nation’s development has been eroded away, the lack of the spirit was the primary cause of the decline and fall of the ancient Egyptian civilization.With the more and more visible of the civilization of ancient Egypt’s own limitation, the country has gradually declined, the waves of alien invasion have risen and eventually both the independence and civilization of the ancient Egyptian were crushed. So far the civilization of ancient Egyptian has completely declined and gradually disappeared from people’s field of vision.