Monday, December 17, 2012

Middle Kingdom - the era of economic prosperity


Cared ancient kings of the state building the pyramids, and the establishment of temples, and sculpture, unlike

Kings Central State who were interested in projects that accrue to all people

Good and prosperity, such as irrigation
projects and interest in agriculture and commerce, and the advancement of the country

Comprehensive renaissance in all its aspects.












The most famous kings of the Middle Kingdom and achievements



Mentuhotep II

 Mentuhotep II  is the founder of the Eleventh Dynasty, took home a "Thebes" capital of his kingdom, and to return


Credited with the renaissance of the country, and the reunification, and dissemination of security and the elimination of sedition. This amount

The ancient Egyptians, and filmed next to King Menes unified the two countries, and the King "Ahmose" compelling

Hyksos and the founder of the modern state.

 

 Mentuhotep II statue in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo




 Remains of the temple of Mentuhotep II

 








Amenemhat I

 The "Amenemhat first" minister for the last kings of the Eleventh Dynasty, and when the king died without

And heir, announced, "Amenemhat" himself king of Egypt. And made ​​a great effort to subdue the provincial governors

To his authority. Also adopted a new capital in a middle position between the Upper and Lower Egypt is

"Ac Tawi" meaning Holding earths, and place the village "Lisht" South

City "Ayat" Giza Governorate. Spent "Amenemhat first" Asians raids

The Libyans on the edge of the Delta, and succeeded in disciplining disobedient in Nubia.



Carved image of Amenemhat I on one of the walls of the tomb in village Lisht near Fayoum.




 Statue of King Amenemhat I, an existing garden of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.



 Remnants of the pyramid of Amenemhet I in "Lisht" village





 Senusret III

 Of the most important kings of the Twelfth Dynasty, due to the administrative and military ability. Led campaigns himself

To Nubia, and established by a series of forts most important fortress "Semna" beyond

Second Cataract on Egypt's southern border at "Wadi Halfa." And extending the borders of Egypt beyond

The limits of his fathers, and increased, and appealed to his successors to maintain those limits:

"It keeps my sons on this border, which thou hast set it my son and my son ... and the It's a similar

Son, who his father and fever, which save the limits of subsequent ..., but who neglected no fights

For it is not my son nor I am a father to him ... "- from the inscription of the king" Senusret III "on a

The monument, which filed in Nubia.









The king ordered "Senusret III" digging a canal in the east of the Delta up between maximum branches of the Nile

East, and the Gulf of Suez, the oldest a water connection between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, has been named

Greeks "channel Sisostris" relative to the King "Senusret III." It benefits that

Returned to the country from digging "channel Sisostris" increase in commercial activity and closer links

Trade between Egypt and the country "Puntland" (current Somalia), and also the increased commercial activity

Between Egypt and the Levant, and the Mediterranean islands, such as Crete and Cyprus.





 Amenemhet III

 Turn King "Amenemhat III" (kings of the Twelfth Dynasty) his effort for development and investment

The country's natural resources. And has been linked to the great work in the Fayoum region, it built a dam to book

Water when "Agon" saved by a large area of land was lost in the flood waters,

And added to the cultivated area in Egypt, this dam has been known as the "Dam

Agon. "King also set up" Amenemhat III "measure in the south when the Castle" obesity "

To identify the height of the flood, which was made ​​on the basis of tax assessment. He built his pyramid

When the town famous "Hawara" in Fayoum, and established a huge temple called later "wandering Palace"

Multiple rooms, where it was difficult for the visitor to get out of it after its entry. Historian

Greek "Herodotus" describes wandering Palace: "It's beyond description, consists of 12 PHUA, and

3 thousand rooms, half underground, and the other half above, and the rooms are higher than what

Narrated by human effects, as the roofs have all been constructed from stones, surrounded by all lobby

Columns made ​​of white stones ...




Granite statue of the king, "Amenemhat III", and is presented in the museum British in London.




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