Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

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CHAPTEE VII.

DYNASTY XVIII.'

Neb-peh-tet-Ea Aahmes I. (Amosis). 1700 B.C. CIK.. .

The dominion of the Hyksos of necessity gave rise to
profound internal divisions, alike in the different
princely families and in the native population itself.
Factions became rampant in various districts, and
reached their highest point in the hostile feeling of the
inhabitants of Patoris or the South country against the
people of Patomit or the North country, who were
much mixed with foreign blood. The indolent descend-
ants of the old royal races had made their residences
the centres, of petty kingdoms ; and just as, in the
strong fortress of El-Kab, in Thebes, in Khmun (the
Hermopolis of the Greeks), in Khinensu (Heracleopolis),
the Upper land kept up its branching dynasties from
generation to generation, so the oppressed children of
the ancient monarchs in the Lower Egyptian cities of
Memphis, Xois, Zoan (Tanis), and elsewhere awaited
a brilliant future of sole dominion over the re-united
divisions of the empire of Iiorus and of Set.2

From this condition of divided power and of
mutual jealousy the foreign rulers obtained their
advantage and their chief strength, until King Aahmes
made himself supreme. Manning his ships with a suffi-
cient number of warriors, he led them down the river

1 For Table of Kings see p. xxii. 2 See p. 6.