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    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Late Period (Part 2): Ancient Egypt Series, #11
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Late Period (Part 2): Ancient Egypt Series, #11
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Late Period (Part 2): Ancient Egypt Series, #11
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    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Late Period (Part 2): Ancient Egypt Series, #11

    By Hui Wang

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    "Weiliao" is a series program that tells the story of the world, it created by Wei Yi Culture and Media AB, and launched in 2020. The content touches on history, science, technology, astronomy, geography, music, and more.

     

    "The History of Ancient Egypt" is a series of books to tell the historical stories of Ancient Egypt, and the stories run through the whole of Ancient Egypt. This book "The Late Period of Egypt (Part 2)" is the eleventh episode. The content includes Cambyses II, Darius the Great, Xerxes the Great, The end of native Egypt, etc. There is more exciting content in the book is looking forward to your reading.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWei Yi Culture and Media AB
    Release dateDec 18, 2020
    ISBN9789189209176
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The Late Period (Part 2): Ancient Egypt Series, #11

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      The History of Ancient Egypt - Hui Wang

      Introduction

      The The History of Ancient Egypt is a series of books to tell the historical stories of Ancient Egypt, and the stories run through the whole of Ancient Egypt. This book The Late Period of Egypt (Part 2) is the eleventh episode. The content includes Cambyses II, Darius the Great, Xerxes the Great, The end of native Egypt, etc. There is more exciting content in the book is looking forward to your reading.

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      Map of the Median Empire, Egypt, Lydian Empire, and Neo-Babylonian Empire in the 6th century BC

      Map of the Median Empire, Egypt, Lydian Empire, and Neo-Babylonian Empire in the 6th century BC

      This period will majorly focus on the coming of the Persians after the end of the 26th dynasty in Ancient Egypt. This is a period that is majorly dominated by the Persians after they conquered Ancient Egypt towards the end of the twenty-sixth dynasty. The twenty-sixth dynasty was a dynasty that was under the Saise who were able to capture Ancient Egypt from the hands of the Nubians who had controlled the kingdom for a good part of the twenty-fifth dynasty and with the help of the Assyrians, they were able to capture it back and thus marked Psamtik I as the first king in the dynasty. Let us look in a summary what came before the twenty-seventh dynasty before the coming of the Persians and their dominance from the 27th dynasty to the coming of Alexander the Great.

      The first king of the Twenty-sixth dynasty was known as Psamtik who through the help of the Assyrians brought to an end the Nubian rule and expelled the last pharaoh of Nubian origin back to Nubia. He thus worked towards reunifying Ancient Egypt which by then was being ruled separately with one capital in Memphis while the other was in Thebes. The approach in his way of unifying the nation was democratic rather than dictatorial. At the beginning of his reign, only Lower Egypt was under his full influence and thus he needed a mechanism to ensure that the whole of Ancient Egypt was under full control of one ruler. He thus used a method that most of the kings used but placing one of the most trusted allies in the main positions as well as his family members and with no time Thebes would submit to his authority. One of his moves he replaced the High Priest of Amun with his ally, Montemhat before he again allowed the current Wife of Amun to continue with her tenure but his daughter, Nitocris, would be the heir to the position. This was aiming to eradicate the influence that the High Priest had in Thebes, something the Kushites were unable to accomplish for the long time they served in Ancient Egypt. It is from these actions that Ancient Egypt continued to submit to these techniques and with not time Ancient Egypt was unified and under the full control of Psamtik I.

      The reign that lasted 54 years for Psamtik I was not a free run due to frequent external attacks. He faced several attacks from the Libyans, but one thing that they aimed at was maintaining a status quo and not expansion. Due to the support that the Assyrians showed when they were pushing the Kushites out of Ancient Egypt, they were indebted in helping them against any form of invasions against Egypt. But Egypt on the other hand had a plan of making Assyria a buffer zone against the growing Babylonians as well as the already established Libyans. The Egyptians thus managed to conquer Palestine and Syria but this was quashed by the rising Babylonians under their king Nebuchadnezzar II.

      Psamtik I was succeeded by Necho II who was able to reign for approximately fifteen years. Necho II came to power at a time that peace was felt all over Ancient Egypt and the only thing that he needed was maintaining the status quo and establishing his principles that would see the country maintain peace and defending themselves against their enemies. One of his principles that he was possessed with is establishing a navy that would see his country develop trade and become dominant in the sector. His idea was to develop a canal that would connect to go through the Red Sea. He started this by developing a navy with the help of the Phoenicians and upon completion, he sent the team around Africa to explore and after three years they were past the pillars of Hercules and turned around to take a tour in Africa before they came back to Egypt. He was well engaged in foreign policy that saw them taking control of Levante before the Babylonians came back with extra power under Nebuchadnezzar. The Egyptians had started getting scared of how Babylonians were taking control of the nations all over Asia and eliminating the control the Libyans and Assyrians had. Upon seeing this they had to take some control so that they would be safe from any direct attacks, the best country to take control of was Levante, and they thus launched an attack and were able to push the Babylonians out of the country. This was however just a brief win before the Babylonians came back and pushed the Egyptians out of the country. This war brought some misunderstanding between him and the Judean king and war broke in Megiddo and it is at this point that the Egyptian king died and succeeded by Psamtik II.

      Psamtik II was only able to reign for six years but his actions within this period did not go unnoticed. Immediately he rose to power, for sometimes got engaged with by the Babylonian battle especially due to Judea and Palestine. He allied with the king of Judea, Zedekiah to revolt against the Babylonians. The Babylonians were seeming unstoppable and no one at the time had the capability of facing the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, at the time. This alliance at least kept Egypt against the invasion of the Babylonians but Egypt as well at the time had developed some sort of power and influence hence Babylonians were as well avoiding any form of confrontation with them.

      At the time that Egypt remained safe from the Babylonian attack, king Psamtik II took his frustrations to Nubia. He claimed that he was taking revenge on behalf of his grandfather Necho who was killed by the Nubian king Tentamani, who was the Nubian king at the time. In this campaign, he destroyed all the monuments and any documents showing that they ever ruled in the country. Apart from other great monuments and buildings, there is nothing much is known of Psamtik II. He died in his 6th year in power and he was succeeded by Apries.

      Apries’ reign was a difficult but successful one at the same time. He came to power at a time that the Babylonians had grown so strong that they had taken control of almost all the countries that

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