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* to support expansion into Nubia, he built a navigable canal around the first cataract and numerous forts | * to support expansion into Nubia, he built a navigable canal around the first cataract and numerous forts | ||
* he bragged of his conquest of Canaan and ordered his successors to maintain the new borders: | * he bragged of his conquest of Canaan and ordered his successors to maintain the new borders: | ||
<pre>Year 16, third month of winter: the king made his southern boundary at Heh. I have made my boundary further south than my fathers. I have added to what was bequeathed me. .... As for any son of mine who shall maintain this border which my Majesty has made, he is my son born to my Majesty. The true son is he who champions his father, who guards the border of his begetter. But he [who] abandons it, who fails to fight for it, he is not my son, he was not born to me. Now my majesty has had an image made of my majesty, at this border which my majesty has made, in order that you maintain it, in order that you fight for it.<pre> | <pre>Year 16, third month of winter: the king made his southern boundary at Heh. I have made my boundary further south than my fathers. I have added to what was bequeathed me. .... As for any son of mine who shall maintain this border which my Majesty has made, he is my son born to my Majesty. The true son is he who champions his father, who guards the border of his begetter. But he [who] abandons it, who fails to fight for it, he is not my son, he was not born to me. Now my majesty has had an image made of my majesty, at this border which my majesty has made, in order that you maintain it, in order that you fight for it.</pre> | ||
* carried on irrigation projects, including to start a canal to connect the Nile to the Fayum Depression (or Fayyum; see entry here) | * carried on irrigation projects, including to start a canal to connect the Nile to the Fayum Depression (or Fayyum; see entry here) | ||
* through wealth and trade from conquests, urbanization increased under Senusret III | * through wealth and trade from conquests, urbanization increased under Senusret III | ||