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Thutmose III Foreign Policy

For twenty two years Hatshepsut ruled in sapience and peace; Thutmose III followed with a rule of many warfares. Syria got advantage of the death of Hatshepsut to revolt; it did not appear likely to the Syrians that a fellow of twenty two, would be able to keep the empire made by his father. But Thutmose depart in the very year of his access, marched his army over Kantara and Gaza at 20 miles per day, and faced up the rebel forces at Megiddo, a small town so strategically placed between the competition Lebanon ranges on the route from Egypt to the Euphrates that it has been the Armageddon of innumerable wars from that day to (General Allenby's). In the very pass where in 1918 the British overcome the Turks, Thutmose III, about 3397 years before, overcome the Syrians and their friends. Then Thutmose moved victorious through west of Asia, conquering, taxing and levying protection, and returned to Thebes in triumph 6 months after his leaving. This was the first of 15 military campaigns in which the winning Thutmose made Egypt master of the Mediterranean peoples world. Not just did he conquer, but he prepared and organized, everywhere he left doughty forts and capable governors. The first man in identified history to recognize the grandness of sea power, he established a fleet that saved the Near East effectively in leash. The spoils that he captured became the creation of Egyptian art in the time period of the Empire; the tribute that he beat from Syria gave his people an heavy ease, and created a new class of artists who engaged all Egypt with precious things. We may vaguely figure the wealth of the new imperial government when we ensure that on one occasion the treasury was capable tc measure out 9000 pounds of gold and silver metal. Trade expanded in Thebes as never before; the temples moaned with offerings; and at Karnak the proud Promenade and Festival Hall raised to the greater glory of deity and king. Then the King withdrawn from the battlefield, designed concentrated vases, and gave himself to secret administration. His vizier or superior minister said of him, as tired secretaries were to tell of Napoleon: "Lo, His Majesty was one who knew what occurred; there was nothing of which he was uneducated; he was the deity of knowledge in everything; there was irrespective that he did not achieved." He passed out after a rule of 32 (some say 54) years, having made Egyptian leadership in the Mediterranean sea world accomplished.  
 
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