Chapter Twenty-Six: The Almighty Pharaoh Thutmose III
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During the reign of 7th and 1st), he sent troops to Palestine and Syria twice, as far as the Euphrates River in Syria. Libya was conquered and surrendered to Egypt.
After that, Egypt reached an informal peace agreement with King Mitanni and established diplomatic ties with Babylon, Hittite and other contemporaries.
In the south, there were no rebellions against Egypt in Nubia.
Thutmose IV, reigned: years. Also known as > Thutmose IV, he was born to Amenhotep II and Tiaa, but he was not Amenhotep II's chosen successor to the imperial throne.
Amenhoteb's eldest son was originally the heir, but the second son, Thutmose IV, eventually succeeded him.
Some scholars believe that Thutmose expelled his brother to usurp the throne and used the Dream Tablet to justify his unexpected royal power.
Thutmose IV's most famous achievements were the restoration of the Sphinx in Giza and the erection of the Dream Monument. And both of these things seem to have been done when he had not yet succeeded to the throne.
According to the Dream Monument, Thutmose IV rested under the head of a sphinx buried up to his neck in yellow sand during a hunting trip.
He quickly fell asleep and had a dream. In the dream, the Sphinx told him that if he could clear the sand and repair it, he would be the next pharaoh.
After completing the restoration of the Sphinx, he erected a carved stone slab (Dream Stele) between the sphinx's claws. This was part of Thutmose's propaganda campaign to show the legitimacy of his unexpected royal power.
Thutmose IV grew up in the army before becoming pharaoh, and at a very young age he received the title of "conqueror of Syria", fought in the Nubian region, and put down a rebellion in Libya. And after becoming a pharaoh, he basically ruled peacefully.
On a surviving memorial of a small scarab beetle, the legend of Thutmose IV as a young man led the way in front of him as he marched to Naharin and Karoi in Western Asia.
Thutmose III was the first known Egyptian pharaoh to worship the god Atun, as well as the main god of Thebes, Amun.
In the Pantheon Exhibition: Ra, the sun god, is worshipped as Aton, the god of the rising sun, and Atum, the god of the sunset. Ra is called Atum in the early morning and Atum in the twilight.
Atonaton, the disc on the head of the sun, the sun god when the sun is just above the horizon.
Thutmose IV, the second son of Amenhoteb, succeeded to the throne of Egypt and was the eighth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
After becoming pharaoh, Thutmose IV remained largely at peace. Externally, it mainly takes diplomatic actions such as marriages.
When the Hittite Empire rose to power in Western Asia, Thutmose IV married the Mitanni princess Moteemwia and formed an alliance to resist the expansion of the Hittite Empire. It also helped Mitanni defend against the threat of the Assyrian Empire.
The role of Thutmose IV in the middle of getting Egypt to establish exchange with his former rival Mitanni is recorded in the Amalnai Texts. The peace lasted for several decades until the Mitanni monarch Tushrata was contemporaneous with Ehnatun, the grandson of Thutmose IV.
In his letter to Ekhnatun, Tushrata wrote: "When Thutmose IV, the father of Amenhotep III, wrote to my grandfather, he asked to marry my grandmother's daughter, my father's sister, to him. He wrote 5, 6 times, but my grandfather did not promise. When he wrote for the 7th time, under great pressure, my grandfather agreed. ”
In the year, Thutmose IV's army protected the transportation routes of some gold mines from Nubian attacks during a small desert patrol in the desert east of Egypt. This is the only armed conflict. Not even a campaign, similar to an escort operation to defend against robbery.
Thutmose IV completed the 32-meter-high obelisk, which is located in the Karnak Temple, and is the tallest obelisk ever found in Egypt, starting from the time of Thutmose III. Thutmose IV called it a "one-of-a-kind obelisk". The obelisk was later transported to the Colosseum by the Roman Emperor Constantius II in 375 AD and later re-erected in Piazza San Giovanni by Pope Sixtus V in 1588 AD. Today, the obelisk is known as the Lateran Palace Obelisk.
In addition to this, Thutmose IV also built a special chapel and a pillared hall on the back and east of the main hall of the Karnak Temple. The chapel was originally built for the "commoners" who were able to enter the Karnak Temple. It is the "ear" of the god Amun, where God can hear the prayers of the citizens. This small chapel made of alabaster and the pillar-wrapping hall built by Thutmose IV are now being carefully restored by French scholars.
Thutmose IV was not in good health, and he died after more than 9 years as a pharaoh.
Amenhotep III, reigned: years. Also known as >, Amenhotab III, the son of Thutmose IV, succeeded to the throne of Egypt and was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. At this time, he was not yet 10,000 years old (between the ages of 6 and 12), and his mother was the princess of Mitanni, Mot Emwia.
In ancient Egypt, where inbred incest was rife (pure royal blood), Amenhotab III broke through the Egyptian royal lineage. In the second year of Amenhoteb III's reign as pharaoh, he married a commoner woman who was not from the orthodox royal family. The commoner, Thai Tiye, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant who was elected to the palace in 1416 BC because of her beauty and became his queen.
And the reason for breaking through the incest of close relatives is simply because of its penchant for beauty, and often asks Egypt's subjects to pay tribute to them.
And the reason why pure royal blood is needed is because at that time, the common people in Egypt began to be more and more influenced by the black people in sub-Saharan Africa, and they became more and more black, and the Egyptian royal family was more pure yellow and white, so the pure royal blood was just to avoid being influenced by the black race. This has similarities with the caste system in India.