Sixth king of the 18th Dynasty and the empire's great conqueror: seventeen campaigns into Canaan and Syria, opened by the victory at Megiddo, carried Egypt's frontier to the Euphrates and laid the foundations of the vassal system the Amarna Letters describe a century later. Late in his reign the monuments of his aunt and co-ruler Hatshepsut were attacked.
War, diplomacy, and empire
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