THUTMOSE III

General Life

Thutmose was a brilliant general. Under his leadership Egypt's armies seized territory in Syria and north and Palestine.Thutmose's military campaigns in the region east of the Mediterranean Sea.

General Life

Some believe Rameses II was the greatest Egyptian ruler but this not true; he spent Egypt’s wealth on massive building projects wear as Thutmose III actually created Egypt’s wealth. Thutmose III possessed great qualities of a great ruler. He was a brilliant general who never lost a battle, he also excelled as an administrator and statesman. He was an accomplished horseman and with the exception of his uncharacteristic spite against the memory of Hatshepsut, shows him to have been a sincere and fair-man

Pharoah

Thutmose III was the most successful warrior/pharaoh . He was sometimes called the Napoleon of Ancient Egypt. He was pharaoh through 1425-1479. Officially, Thutmose III ruled Egypt for almost fifty-four years, and his reign is usually dated from April 24, 1479 BC to March 11, 1425 BC; however, this includes the twenty-two years he was co-regent to Hatshepsut.

Pharaoh

During the final two years of his reign, he appointed his son and successor, Amenhotep II, as his Junior co-regent. When Thutmose III died, he was buried in the Valley of the Kings as were the rest of the kings from this period in Egypt.

Thutmose's Life

Thutmose III was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During the first twenty-two years of Thutmose's reign he was co-regent with his stepmother and aunt, Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh at the time.

Thutmose's Life

As he grew up, Thutmose may even have been entrusted with command of the army on campaign in Nubia; whether he also fought in Palestine is doubtful. His grandfather Thutmose I had penetrated into northern Syria; Thutmose II, though far from a weakling, had not followed this success, and Hatshepsut, as a woman, may have been unwilling to send an army into the field. Thus, through inaction, Egyptian influence in Syria and Palestine had declined.

WORK CITED

• Greenblatt, Miriam, and Peter S. Lemmo. Human Heritage: A World History. New York: McGraw, 2001. Print.
• Hinds, Kathryn. Life in Ancient Egypt. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2007. Print.
• Book Walker, Jane. 100 things about ancient Egypt. Unkown: Mason Crest, n.d. Print.
• World Book Online. N.p.: n.p., n.d. World Book Online. Web. 12 Nov. 2014. .