history

[1aubree]

By 400 BC, Egypt consisted of what two kingdoms?

[mightywease]

Upper and Lower Egypt maybe?

[jno]

more like 4000BC for upper and lower Egypt. They were united under most of the pharaohs and by 400 BC the country was ruled by Persians and then Alexander's Greeks. I don't think the country was split again by then.

[Octavius]

By 400BC Egypt was ruled by the Persians under the Achaemenid Empire of the Great Shah.

In the brief interlude (404 - 399BC) Amyrtaeus was the only King or Pharoah of Egypt.

The two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt were united c. 3100 BC, and subsequently the pharaohs were known as the rulers of the Two Kingdoms.

[Peter Pedant]

The Southern bit became known as the

dodekaschoinos

around that time - but wasnt really a Kingdom,

The English for that is 12 schoines, but it is not really helpful, and they dont know how far a schoine is, either.

Further South there was Nubia and Meroe
[not really Egypt tho]

[Peter Pedant]

Dodeka schoinos see:

http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Post/856370

and it is indeed Ptolemaic:

He mentions W Y Adams, author of Nubia Corridor to Africa (1979), available at Amazon. 1000 pg on this period which may be more than you want to know