A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . ing with him a multitude ofhostages and prisoners. The gigantic structures of Karnakand Luxor testify to the grandeur of these military were built in honor of Ammon, the god of Avar. Theachievements of Thothmes III. were inscribed upon theirwalls. Ramses I.; Seti I. — Through the foreign conquests, Asiaticinfluences came to prevail in the Egyptian court. This wasespecially true under Amenophis IV., who established atThebes the Asiatic divinity Aten, the god of the disc of the 30 EARLIEST GEOUP OE NATIONS sun,
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . ing with him a multitude ofhostages and prisoners. The gigantic structures of Karnakand Luxor testify to the grandeur of these military were built in honor of Ammon, the god of Avar. Theachievements of Thothmes III. were inscribed upon theirwalls. Ramses I.; Seti I. — Through the foreign conquests, Asiaticinfluences came to prevail in the Egyptian court. This wasespecially true under Amenophis IV., who established atThebes the Asiatic divinity Aten, the god of the disc of the 30 EARLIEST GEOUP OE NATIONS sun, in whose honor he changed his name to Chu-en-Aten,.the luster of the solar disc. The great monarchs of thenineteenth dynasty were hostile to this Asiatic influence and worship. Thisnot surpass asing dynasty,better how toSeti I., havingthe Ganaanites was true of Eamses I. If they didconquerors, the kings of the x^reced-especially Thothmes III., they knewretain and organize their conquests,defeated the Arabian tribes, vanquishedand built strong places in their Obelisk of Thothmes at Kaknak In the conflict with Mautenouer, the king of the Hittites,he gained no decisive success. The Hittites were a bravenation, advanced in culture, whose dominion was between the EGYPT 31 Orontes and the Euplirates. A smaller branch of this peopledwelt in Canaan, of whom we have notices in the Old Testa-ment, at the same time that intimations are given of a knowl-edge of the powerful nation bearing the same name. The Lybian Incursions. — Thothmes in a series of attacksrepelled the Lybian tribes. These enemies constantly threat-ened Egypt, until, four centu-ries later, one of their kingswas able to get possession ofthe Egyptian throne. Theyhad first been received intothe Egyptian army as mer-cenaries. Seti raised mag-nificent edifices, mostly atThebes. Ramses II.; War with theHittites. — Ramses II., hisson and successor, namedSesostris by the Greeks, al-though a great warrior, is notenti
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