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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menes Menes] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer Narmer] (wikipedia) | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menes Menes] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer Narmer] (wikipedia) | ||
[[File:Egypt_AbydosKinglistDrawing_wiki_sm.jpg|right|frame|Abydos King List with 76 pharaohs as found on the walls of the Temple of Seti, a New Kingdom pharaoh. The list in incomplete and has certain pharaohs, such as Hatshepsut deliberately missing (wikipedia)]] | |||
[[File:Egypt_AbydosKinglistDrawing_wiki_sm.jpg|right|frame|Abydos King List with 76 pharaohs as found on the walls of the Temple of Seti, a New Kingdom pharaoh. The list in incomplete and has certain pharaohs, such as | |||
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** Hyksos episode changes Egypt culturally and leads to Egyptian New Kingdom expansion and empire | ** Hyksos episode changes Egypt culturally and leads to Egyptian New Kingdom expansion and empire | ||
** Egyptians adopt Hyksos war technologies, especially bows & arrows and chariots | ** Egyptians adopt Hyksos war technologies, especially bows & arrows and chariots | ||
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* Hyksos were called "Asiatics" by the Egyptians (became general term for migrants from Middle East, including Hebrews) | * Hyksos were called "Asiatics" by the Egyptians (became general term for migrants from Middle East, including Hebrews) | ||
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* Amenhotep means " "Amun is Satisfied" | * Amenhotep means " "Amun is Satisfied" | ||
* oversaw expansion of Egypt | * oversaw expansion of Egypt | ||
click EXPAND for inscription in which Amenhotep bragged: | |||
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<pre>"And I ordered to build twelve warships with rams, dedicated to Amun or Sobek, or Maat and Sekhmet, whose image was crowned best bronze noses. Carport and equipped outside rook over the waters, for many paddlers, having covered rowers deck not only from the side, but and top. and they were on board eighteen oars in two rows on the top and sat on two rowers, and the lower – one, a hundred and eight rowers were. And twelve rowers aft worked on three steering oars. And blocked Our Majesty ship inside three partitions (bulkheads) so as not to drown it by ramming the wicked, and the sailors had time to repair the hole. And Our Majesty arranged four towers for archers – two behind, and two on the nose and one above the other small – on the mast with narrow loopholes. they are covered with bronze in the fifth finger (3.2mm), as well as a canopy roof and its rowers. and they have (carried) on the nose three assault heavy crossbow arrows so they lit resin or oil with a salt of Seth (probably nitrate) tore a special blend and punched (?) lead ball with a lot of holes (?), and one of the same at the stern. and long ship seventy five cubits (41m), and the breadth sixteen, and in battle can go three-quarters of iteru per hour (about 6.5 knots)... </pre> | <pre>"And I ordered to build twelve warships with rams, dedicated to Amun or Sobek, or Maat and Sekhmet, whose image was crowned best bronze noses. Carport and equipped outside rook over the waters, for many paddlers, having covered rowers deck not only from the side, but and top. and they were on board eighteen oars in two rows on the top and sat on two rowers, and the lower – one, a hundred and eight rowers were. And twelve rowers aft worked on three steering oars. And blocked Our Majesty ship inside three partitions (bulkheads) so as not to drown it by ramming the wicked, and the sailors had time to repair the hole. And Our Majesty arranged four towers for archers – two behind, and two on the nose and one above the other small – on the mast with narrow loopholes. they are covered with bronze in the fifth finger (3.2mm), as well as a canopy roof and its rowers. and they have (carried) on the nose three assault heavy crossbow arrows so they lit resin or oil with a salt of Seth (probably nitrate) tore a special blend and punched (?) lead ball with a lot of holes (?), and one of the same at the stern. and long ship seventy five cubits (41m), and the breadth sixteen, and in battle can go three-quarters of iteru per hour (about 6.5 knots)... </pre> | ||
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** Source: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_technologyAncient Egyptian technology (wikipedia)]] | ** Source: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_technologyAncient Egyptian technology (wikipedia)]] | ||
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=== Thutmose II === | |||
* ruled 1493-1479 BC | |||
* son of Thutmose I and a minor wife | |||
** to secure power married his more-fully royal half-sister, Hatshepsut | |||
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* significant events during his reign include campaigns in Nubia and the Levant (eastern coast of the Mediterranean) | |||
** the Kush kingdom rebelled upon Thutmose II's ascension as pharaoh | |||
*** Kush rulers tested Egyptian hold during transitions of power | |||
*** Thutmose II did fight in Nubia | |||
*** he may have led an expedition to Syria | |||
** Hatshepsut may have been acting as a co-ruler | |||
** historians dispute the length of Thutmose II's rule as either 14, 13, 10, or 3 years | |||
* it is possible that Thutmose II was the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_of_the_Exodus Pharaoh of the Exodus"]] (from the Jewish bible) | |||
** evidence for it: | |||
*** his reign ended abruptly | |||
*** cysts on his mummified body indicate possible plague | |||
* see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thutmose_II Thutmose II (wiki)]] | |||
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===Hatshepsut=== | ===Hatshepsut=== | ||
* 1508–1458 BC; ruled from 1479-1458 BC | |||
* 1508–1458 BC; ruled from 1479 - 1458 BC | * ruled as regent for Amenhotep's two-year old son, Thutmose III | ||
' | * declared herself pharaoah | ||
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=== Other Student Projects and Investigations === | === Other Student Projects and Investigations === | ||
* Evaluate why did Thutmose III and his son erase | * Evaluate why did Thutmose III and his son erase Hatshepsut's legacy? What are the theories, what do you think? | ||
* Why was Akhenaton unable to impose monotheism upon Egypt? | * Why was Akhenaton unable to impose monotheism upon Egypt? | ||