Saturday, October 6, 2007







There were three dynasties in the New Kingdom. The Middle Kingdom was the Eighteenth dynasty through the twentieth dynasty. These dynasties lasted from 1550 through 1069BC.


Ahmose was the first king of the eighteenth dynasty and the founder of the New Kingdom. He ruled from 1550 to 1526BC. His father was Tao II and his mother Queen Aahotep. He had one brother who's name was Kamos. His main wife was Ahmose-Nefretiri. He made the city of Thebes the capitol city. His achievements were driving out the Hyksos from Egypt, building temples and building pyramids. He died at about the age of thirty-five years. He was buried at Deir Abu el-Naga - Abydos.




The founder of the nineteenth dynasty was Ramesses the first. During his reign he moved the capitol city to Avaris. His main wife was Sit-Re. his successor was his son Seti I, whom was born of Queen Sit-Re. Ramesses the first reigned from 1292to 1290BC. After he died he was buried in the Valley of the Kings, but was later reburied in Deir el Bahri cache source.


Ramesses the second was also part of the New Kingdom. he was the father of more than one hundred children and had more than five wives. He was also known as Ramesses the Great. Interestingly enough he had red hair. This pharaoh ruled for more than ninety years (Shuter 36). Ramses II was buried in the Vally of the Kings when he died. Ramesses the second left behind more memorials than any of the other pharaohs before or after him (Meltzer 70).


Setnakht was the first pharaoh of the twentieth dynasty, which lasted from 1186 through 1069BC. This pharaoh had a very short reign of about three years. his son was Ramesses the third. Not much, however, is known about this pharaoh's background. Some egyptologists think that he was related to the nineteenth dynasty. This pharaoh, like many others, was buried in the Valley of the Kings in a tomb cut out of rock.


The end of the New Kingdom came when Invaders decided to take advantage of the Egyptians when their government was struggling. The Egyptian government was struggling because when they moved their capitol to Akenton there was a struggle for power involving the government officials. This struggle made Egypt break into smaller states, which made it weak. Then the invaders came in and took Egypt source.


The New Kingdom was made up of three dynasties. These dynasties were the eighteenth dynasty, the nineteenth dynasty and twentieth dynasty. The New Kingdom lasted from 1550BC until 1069BC when it met a tragic end.


Meltzer, Milton. In the Days of the Pharaohs: A Look at Ancient Egypt.
New York: Library of Congress, 2001.


Shuter, Jane. People Who Made History in Ancient Egypt.
Austen TX: Steck-Vaughn, 2001.















1 comment:

Awesomepossum said...

Off-white words on a white page is really hard to read.
Good blog, though.
Oh, and why is there so much space between your works cited and the bottom of the post? You might have some links down there you didn't use or something.
Um... See you Tuesday. :)