what legacy did ancient egypt leave behind

One empire replacing another on the world stage with grim finality. When our story begins, it had been almost nine hundred years since Ptolemy XV - the last Pharaoh of Egypt - was killed by Octavian, who would become the first Emperor of Rome. Indeed, Egypt had thirty one dynasties, and often it was a foreign ruler who would conquer Egypt during a period of decline, install themselves as new Pharaohs, and begin a new great dynasty. And the Persians were only the last in a long line of foreign kings. Alexander, in fact, took Egypt from Persia, not the Pharaohs, and was greeted as a liberator. Ptolemy was not the first foreigner to rule over Egypt as Pharoh. It is commonly known that long ago, the Hellenic Greeks took Egypt and installed their own Ptolemy as Pharaoh, adopting much of Egypt's native culture while injecting their own influence at once. This is the story of a chieftain whose people descended from Pharaohs, and who dreamed of restoring that legacy once more. This is the story of an empire born from one such dream, which sprang not from memories of Rome or Greece, but from a place far more ancient - a place that inspired the Romans and Greeks themselves. But these are hardly the only ancient states that have fueled the dreams of men whose ambition hungered for an empire. Here in the West, we focus on the legacy of Rome and Greece. The legitimacy that derives from tracing one's line back to those primordial polities, no matter how tenuous the connection, was to many rulers more precious than gold. Throughout the course of human history we can find, again and again, that the ancient empires possess a certain siren's call that drives men to fight and die in their name long after they are gone.

Prelude - Setting the Stage for Bolad of Kordofan

What legacy did ancient egypt leave behind