Africa’s most famous continent is Egypt, and was one of the strongest ancient forces. It had two time periods: Kingdom periods, which was when the kingdom was well organized and prospered, and the Intermediate period, which was a period when Egypt was on its decline. There were 6 stages of Ancient Egypt before it became part of the Roman Empire, those being the Old Kingdom, 1st Intermediate, Middle Kingdom, 2nd Intermediate Kingdom, New Kingdom (or the Golden Age of Egypt), and then it finally fell to Alexander the Great. After Alexander the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt until it became part of the steadily growing Roman Empire. Also, the old Kingdom was when most of the pyramids were built. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Egypt came under Islam control, and became one of the Islamic territories.