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    The History of Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom (Part 2): Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #7
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom (Part 2): Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #7
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom (Part 2): Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #7
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    The History of Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom (Part 2): Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #7

    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 New Kingdom of Egypt (Part 2)" is the seventh episode, the historical period includes the entire nineteenth dynasty. The content includes Ramesses I, Seti I, Ramesses II, and four heirs of Ramesses II. There is more exciting content in the book is looking forward to your reading.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWei Yi Culture and Media AB
    Release dateNov 14, 2020
    ISBN9789189209138
    The History of Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom (Part 2): Weiliao Series: Ancient Egypt Series, #7

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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 New Kingdom of Egypt (Part 2) is the seventh episode, the historical period includes the entire nineteenth dynasty. The content includes Ramesses I, Seti I, Ramesses II and four heirs of Ramesses II. There is more exciting content in the book is looking forward to your reading.

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      Overview

      Carved statue of Ramesses II

      Carved statue of Ramesses II

      The 19th dynasty is a dynasty in the New Kingdom. This dynasty came as the second dynasty in the New Kingdom after the 18th dynasty in Ancient Egypt. This dynasty is believed to have lasted for approximately 110 years within which there came different pharaohs, queens, princes, and princesses. The 19th dynasty combined with the 20th dynasty form a period that is collectively known as the Ramesside period. This period started when Egypt stabilized, although at one point it got disturbed due to the change in the religion by Akhenaten in the Amarna dynasty. The kings who came before and after the Amarna period were able to expand the boundaries of ancient Egypt and quashed most of the resistances that came about due to this hiccup. These kings made ancient Egypt expand their realm of influence around the world. Towards the end of the dynasty, things seemed to have changed a bit and they had to be corrected at the beginning of the 19th dynasty onwards.

      At the end of the 18th dynasty, the work that was hard-fought and set into pace by kings such as Thutmose III among others such as Hatshepsut was put into test by the coming of the worship of one god, Aten under the watch of king Akhenaten. It is during this time that the concentration of the Egyptians shifted to thinking and concentrating on promoting the worship in the new religion instead of protecting their boundaries. Akhenaten was the architect of this downfall and as well recruited his son to this mission although his son did not play according to the expectations of his father as he fought to bring back the lost glory of Ancient Egypt. During this time of confusion and downfall, the Hittites and some of the countries that were conquered before started planning on their exit and even became part of international politics.

      Upon the start of the 19th dynasty, it was the task of the incoming kings and their viziers to have a compact plan that would see them take control of that was previously under Egypt’s control. The main aim of pharaohs who came after Akhenaten was rebuilding the culture and belief of their people especially rebuilding the temples that were brought down during the Akhenaten era. The military works and victory that were achieved by Thutmose III and his son Amenhotep II needed to be restored. The 19th dynasty as well saw many military men due to their role in shaping the 19th dynasty to become wealthy and being rewarded to a point of some becoming a pharaoh. An example is Horemheb, who was the last king in the 18th dynasty after succeeding Ay, who was a vizier for a long time. Horemheb was chosen as the heir to the throne due to his contemporary work in the military by Tutankhamun since he did not have any son to succeed him. By the time Tutankhamun died, Horemheb who was a military strategist was away for a mission and it is from here that Ay took this chance and made himself the pharaoh. Later after his death, Ay had named his son as his heir but Horemheb usurped Ay’s son and made himself the pharaoh, marking the end of the 18th dynasty.

      Taking a step back, when Akhenaten died, his son Tutankhaten took over the throne who seems to have hated the religion that his father had started and thus changed his name swiftly to Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun then moved the capital from the city that was constructed by his father and named as the capital, Amarna, back to Memphis and then made Thebes the religious center. He then went ahead and opened the previously closed temples so that Egyptians would be able to go on with their old religion and leave monotheism religion to the past. He made an important step in restoring the glory of the country that had been put at risk by the worship of one god. Tutankhamun had a wife by the name Ankhsenamun of who was his half-sister but they did not have any kid by the time he died, at the age of 18. Upon his death, he is believed he had chosen Horenheb as his successor in case he died without any form of complication and thus Horemheb was the rightful heir to the throne, but by the time he died Horemheb was a military mission and the person present was his vizier Ay, and that’s how Ay ascended to power and ruled until his death.

      When Horemheb ascended to power, he dedicated most of his energy in bringing down any remaining temples in Karnak that appeared to promote the worship of Aten or rather that was built during the Amarna period more specifically built by Akhenaten. When he completed the destruction, he used the remaining material to build new temples and inscriptions in the form of the old religion and traditions. Another big task that Horemheb was tasked with is the promotion of the foreign relation that Akhenaten had ignored during his rule. He committed himself to promote this relationship although he was unable to bring it back to where it was left by previous kings such as Amenhotep III.

      Horemheb can be described as a man of a mixture of the old and the new. He was a man who was in no way related to the royal residence career. His origin was somewhere in the northern part of Egypt perhaps a poor family whose members are not known of. By the time of his death, he did not have a son, and thus he sorted to set the records straight on the succession issue to make sure that the occurrences that occurred in his case with Ay over the succession of Tutankhamun never happened again. He, therefore, chose his vizier, Paramessu, of whom he believed he was committed to his vision of redeeming Egypt as his successor. By the time he chose Paramessu, he was a military commander and he was at one point in his career Horemhebs’ vizier. He was a commoner who resided in Northern Egypt of who was not in any way related to the royal family. The reason he chose Paramessu was that he had a connection with the people in the Eastern Delta, a region that was around where the Hyksos initial capital was located, and a place where people had started revolting against the government. Thus choosing him as the heir would see the people here calm down even considering further that Paramessu had a son who was a military man and already resided here by the name Seti I.

      Horemheb seems not only had he planned for his succession but he also planned on the succession of his

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