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  AHMOSE 1 NEBPEHTYRE 18TH DYNESTY EGYPT KING 1570-1546BC
  
  Children
  Ahmose Queen Egypt EGYPT
  Mutnefert Princess Egypt EGYPT
  Note: Egypt
  
  THE NEW KINGDOM
  
  The 18th dynasty.
  
  Ahmose.
  
  Although Ahmose (ruled c. 1539-14 BC) had been preceded byKamose, who was either his father or brother, Egyptian traditionregarded Ahmose as the founder of a new dynasty because he wasthe native ruler who reunified Egypt. Continuing a recentlyinaugurated practice, he married his full sisterAhmose-Nofretari. The queen was given the title of God's Wifeof Amon. Like her predecessors of the 17th dynasty, QueenAhmose-Nofretari was influential and highly honoured. A measureof her importance was her posthumous veneration at Thebes, wherelater pharaohs were depicted offering to her as a goddess amongthe gods.
  
  Ahmose was very young at his accession, and his campaigns toexpel the Hyksos from the Delta and regain former Egyptianterritory to the south probably started around his 10th regnalyear. Destroying the Hyksos stronghold at Avaris, in the easternDelta, he finally drove them beyond the eastern frontier andthen besieged Sharuhen (Tall al-Far'ah) in southern Palestine;the full extent of his conquests may have been much greater. Hispenetration of the Near East came at a time when there was nomajor established power in the region. This political gapfacilitated the creation of an Egyptian "empire."
  
  Ahmose's officers and soldiers were rewarded with spoil andcaptives, who became personal slaves. This marked the creationof an influential military class. Like Kamose, Ahmose campaignedas far south as Buhen. For the administration of the regainedterritory he created a new office, overseer of southern foreignlands, which ranked second only to the vizier. Its incumbent wasaccorded the honorific title of king's son, indicating that hewas directly responsible to the king as deputy.
  
  The early New Kingdom bureaucracy was modeled after that of theMiddle Kingdom. The vizier was the chief administrator and thehighest judge of the realm. By the middle of the 15th century BCthe office had been divided into two, one vizier for Upper andone for Lower Egypt. During the 18th dynasty some youngbureaucrats were educated in temple schools, reinforcing theintegration of civil and priestly sectors. Early in the dynastymany administrative posts were inherited, but royal appointmentof capable officials, often selected from military officers whohad served the king on his campaigns, later became the rule. Thetrend was thus away from bureaucratic families and theinheritance of office.
  

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