what caused the ancient Egyptian era to come to an end?

Answer 1

The ancient Egyptian era never came to an end. The Egyptians, their state, their society, and their people kept on evolving from the time of King Menes of 3000BC to well into the Roman era. Along the way, Egypt was conquered by Assyrians, Persians, and Macedonians. In 200AD and 300AD, Romanized Egyptians were still embalming mummies and worshipping the gods Isis and Osiris. Romans in Rome worshipped Isis and Osiris. If anything can be said to have caused the ancient Egyptian era to end, it was the conquest by the muslim Arabs in 650AD or so when they boiled out of Arabia to take over the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain.

Answer 2

The answer depends in many ways on when you determine "the end" to be. Most professional Egyptologists loose interest or have at least limited their study to the time preceding the Roman era, some limiting it even further to the period prior to the Ptolemaic era. This is something of an artificial distinction, though a case can be made that once Egypt was no longer ruled by an indigenous king or queen it was no longer quite the same as the "pharaonic" period. Egyptian society maintained a number of continuities in terms of language, religion, and culture even under the Ptolemies and the Romans. It was not until the influx of Christianity and its growing popularity that major, rapid cultural changes occurred, primarily in the areas of religion. Egyptian religious practices with millennia of continuity changed drastically as Christianity became widely adopted. Hieroglyphs, never a widely-used script, ceased to be used around 391 AD after the Roman emperor at the time ordered all non-Christian temples to be closed. Coptic, the final stage of the Egyptian language written in an alphabetic script based on Greek with the addition of a few letters drawn from demotic, continued to be widely spoken in Egypt until the Arab Conquest in the 7th Century AD when it was gradually replaced by Arabic. Coptic did remain a "living" language until the 17th Century AD, when it finally became restricted to being a liturgical language of the Coptic Christian Church in Egypt.

As for causes of the end - well, the simplest response is to say that foreign conquest caused the end. In some ways this is almost too simplistic. Rather, it was a combination of a number of factors, including conquest, but also including broader political changes in the Mediterranean world, new religious practices spreading, and general cultural change.

It's worth noting that there are a number of practices in modern Egypt (especially in rural areas) that in some ways can be tied to ancient Egyptian practices, despite the primacy of Islam and, to a lesser degree, Christianity in modern Egypt.

Answer 3

over time the(original/ancient) egyptians were attacked and defeated, by among others, the hyksos, who may have been from lebanon, and were finally taken over by the greeks and romans. historically, the ptolomy/greek line may have formed a dynastic presence as a part of the "new (last) kingdom". it's been a while since history class, though ;-). but, definitely, with the advent of the roman period, that was "the end" of true/dynastic egypt of the "initiated" pharoahs. probably from the ptolemy reign on, it was just greed and commerce as usual!

Answer 4

Cleopatra was the last autonomous Pharaoh (although she was descended from one of Alexander's generals). After her death Egypt became part of the Roman Empire.

Answer 5

Alexander the Great..

Answer 6

Invaders from other countries over powered them

Answer 7

romans, greeks, and finally the muslim arabs. the last two are still implanted into the culture.

Answer 8

the bloody romans